The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions.
The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."
Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.
The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."
Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.