Fixed-width decode only one of the ideas of "RISC," but not the main one. I would argue that modern ARM is almost as much of a CISC-y abomination as was x86 in

Fixed-width decode only one of the ideas of "RISC," but not the main one. I would argue that modern ARM is almost as much of a CISC-y abomination as was x86 in 1999. ARM has a lot of instructions that do multiple things and are very non-RISC. POWER is probably the most RISC-y architecture in use at the high end right now, but it still looks like CISC to the people who originally came up with that idea.