I think the one who wrote this title should be blamed. It may not be intentional, but it sounds like Linus is an evil villain who beat RISC-V superhero.

Look at this function that gets submitted to the pull request.

make_u32_from_two_u16()

These "helper" functions never help for the reasons Linus addressed in the article. As a JavaScript developer, which often results in a messy codebase because of management issues, I hate these functions with a passion. It's usually only the person who wrote it finds it helpful, and only at the week he wrote it. After six months he will just be confused as everyone else.

Garbage, in other word.

Even if it's not garbage, why submit it alongside the RISC-V change? If it's a dependency, submit this one first and postpone your RISC-V change.

RISC-V may not be garbage. It's the industry not getting quality and experienced developers for it.