Fair. Personally, I think the idea of simplicity is still relevant for pedagogy (as it always is), but one you rope in 'suitable for out of order execution or

Fair. Personally, I think the idea of simplicity is still relevant for pedagogy (as it always is), but one you rope in 'suitable for out of order execution or speculative execution or backtracking and so on' as criteria, 'simple' is harder to achieve (at least for practical commercial designs). YMMV.