Comment by imtringued

You've hit the nail on the head. Really, when people complain about CISC vs RISC, they are mostly complaining about two particular things. The first is that x86 processors carry legacy baggage (aka they have had a long history of success that continues to this day) and the second is that x86 has a lot of variable length instructions. After that, most of the complaints are very nit-picky, such as the number of general purpose registers and how they are named.