I'm going to chalk it up to general techno-political ideology, but RISC-V was just as inaccessible in those days too. Nowadays I'm happy to report that my sold

I'm going to chalk it up to general techno-political ideology, but RISC-V was just as inaccessible in those days too. Nowadays I'm happy to report that my soldering iron is running RISC-V, and that is as it should be. However in certain realms - safety critical, 2-of-3 voting and so on - having a diversity of platforms is still considered productive, so .. if the foundries ever boot up properly .. there's still lots of life outside the mono-platform. I'm sure RISC-V is a build target for him these days.