I don't understand why they are paying the royalties for an arm core? I thought CPU transition was acted. We would still tolerate a HDMI block instead of/with

I don't understand why they are paying the royalties for an arm core? I thought CPU transition was acted. We would still tolerate a HDMI block instead of/with a displayport block and a h26[45] codec block instead of/with a AV1 codec block. I would favor the milk-v duo with the cv1800 SOC instead (free from arm cores and with a 64bits risc-v mcu).