Why RISC-V and not e.g. Arm? Why is RISC-V better than x86 from AMD? Serious questions, I have no idea about these topics and would love to learn more.
On the other hand, it is not finished. A number of extensions have yet to be frozen, and we're just beginning to see commercial processors (I mean, where the ISA is exposed to the end user. NVIDIA already uses RISC-V internally).
What's the situation regarding this for Mill/VLIW?
The Mill folks are heavily into patents for their tech: https://millcomputing.com/patents/. So besides Mill's general feasibility it depends on how they work those patents.