Microblaze is designed for optimal mapping to Xilinx FPGA cells, it doesn't make sense to compare ASIC gate count. Also, their secret sauce is the ecosystem an

Microblaze is designed for optimal mapping to Xilinx FPGA cells, it doesn't make sense to compare ASIC gate count. Also, their secret sauce is the ecosystem and tooling around it. If you don't use that, you are not their target and are free to use any open source riscv core you please.