Hot take: x86 was a swamp, but overtime we stopped using legacy features, and the instructions got better, and the amount of chip resources needed to implement

Hot take: x86 was a swamp, but overtime we stopped using legacy features, and the instructions got better, and the amount of chip resources needed to implement the CISC architecture decreased to a small percentage of the total, such that it sort of just turned into a wierd compression algorithm for encoding RISC instructions and didn't matter much anymore.