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I designed an ISA (and a CPU) as an undergrad, and I assure you that, while it was very cool (stack-oriented, ASM looked like Forth), it'd have horrendous performance these days.

You say that as though Design By Committee isn't a thing.

Except that the problem with RISC-V isn't even design by committee. Even the most dysfunctional committee would probably not fall into pits that RISC-V managed to. The most credible explanation for it's misfeatures I've heard is just plain bad taste and overly rigid adherence to principle over practicality by it's original designers.

The entire post is full of hyperbole, but the example they show looks like a legitimate complaint.