I like RISC-V and I like RV32E, the 16-register variant which is still 'OPEN' and not yet ratified. I think RVC is a very elegant compressed instruction approach; it can address 8 registers and is part of RV32E. RVC is far better than the Thumb or MIPS16 modes.
Yeah, I like RISC-V generally, especially the base and the vector extension. However, they really went off the rails with the Bit Manipulation Extensions [1] still in draft form. Compare bfp which mixes control + data in the same register with ARMv8 bfi. It's only been added since the 0.92 draft but it seems to me very un-RISC-like.