The "RISC" thing is an experiment that failed in the 90s. There's nothing particularly RISCy about the ARM instruction set. It is a pretty darned complicated instruction set.
ARM processors ALSO decode instructions to micro-ops. And Apple chips do too. Pretty much a draw. The first stage in the execution pipelines of all modern processors is a a decode stage.
ARM processors ALSO decode instructions to micro-ops. And Apple chips do too. Pretty much a draw. The first stage in the execution pipelines of all modern processors is a a decode stage.