just because it is prefixed (semantic caveats below)
3. A hardware-level for-loop (the prefix) makes vector elements
100% synonymous with scalar instructions (the suffix)
+4. Exactly as with Scalar RISC ISAs, the uniformity does produce
+ "holes" in the encoding or some strange combinations.
How can a Vector ISA even exist when no actual Vector instructions
are permitted to be added? It comes down to the strict RISC abstraction.