Read the article. They're preparing for RISC-V chips to take over the crown from ARM as ARM is not a stable company.
It's like ARM before v7 or v8, only dumber, because at least ARM back then had an excuse for why they were fracturing it all so badly.
Also, of course, ARM has lots of other IP you need to build a full-blown smartphone SoC; think GPU, display processors and pipelines, video accelerators, ... - to make a RISC-V smartphone you will have to buy all of those in because there is no "RISC-V ecosystem" replacement (and it's rather unlikely there ever will be) and at that point... what's the point anymore?
They actually aren't annoying at all. Real world testing with actual chips is very helpful to the RISC-V Foundation and its extension development and ratification process.