@pelefant @geerlingguy risc-v is few years old, right?
And cores are compared to Arm Cortex-A55. The lowest sensible one.
Not even years old Cortex-A76. Nor Neoverse-N1.
You want to fight Arm? Be on par with Neoverse-N2. With SVE, virtualization, working EL(1-3).
And boot Linux and BSD out of the box.
Without it you are only weak pretender.