Strikes me as fad-chasing. The EVM is already well-suited for writing smart contracts as it has many affordances for that<p><a href="https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/" rel="nofollow">https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/</a><p>particularly the cryptographic primitives which would be error-prone to code up from scratch. Granted EVM is not so great for general purpose programming, but Ethereum isn't a good environment to write video games, compilers, neural network trainers, gas costs and all.
Archive link to original proposal (currently unavailable):<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250421002939/https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/long-term-l1-execution-layer-proposal-replace-the-evm-with-risc-v/23617" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20250421002939/https://ethereum-...</a>