rL310710 allowed store merging to occur after legalization to catch stores that are created late, but this exposes a logic hole seen in PR34217:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34217
We will miss merging stores if the target lowers vector extracts into target-specific operations. This patch allows store merging to occur both before and after legalization if the target chooses to get maximum merging.
I don't think the potential regressions in the other tests are relevant. The tests are for correctness of weird IR constructs rather than perf tests, and I think those are still correct.