AIUI they (were) stopped by the end of 2023.

Their proposal got no support from any vendor, and was also rejected[0] by the board of directors.

They were shown they were wrong, and thoroughly educated on the matter by other members. SiFive even made a presentation[1] about it.

RISC-V has long moved on from that incident. RVA23 was ratified. Multiple vendors have announced IP implementing RVA23.

0. https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/topic/rvi_bod_decisi...

1. https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/353/0/RIS...

I am already dreaming of the day I'll play AAA games on my RISC-V workstation (on a linux based OS, probably without ELF binaries anymore though).

Or have a RISC-V smart phone, with my own linux based OS.