acts as if SV had not been applied at all to the instruction (an
"identity transformation").
-The fact that is dynamic and can be set to any value at runtime based
+The fact that `VL` is dynamic and can be set to any value at runtime based
on program conditions and behaviour means very specifically that
`scalar identity behaviour` is **not** a redundant encoding. If the
only means by which VL cold be set was by way of static-compiled