These were taking priority over the aligned load instructions since there is no vmovda8/16. I don't think there is really a difference between aligned and unaligned on newer cpus so I don't think it matters which instructions we use.
But with this change we reduce the size of the isel table a little and we allow the aligned information to pass through to the evex->vec pass and produce the same output has avx/avx2 in some cases.
I also generally dislike patterns rooted in a bitcast which these were.