> That's why it's so bizarre that the RISC-V design is so awful.

Not bizarre.

The design is a direct result of the biases of its initial designers, and its original intended use-case. And TBH, if you assess it by its original design criteria, it's actually pretty good.

It's just by the time RISC-V had escaped containment and was starting to become a general purpose open ISA, it was a little too late to start from the beginning and consider what the correct design criteria should even be.