The vector reduction intrinsics started life as experimental ops, so backend support was lacking. As part of promoting them to 1st-class intrinsics, however, codegen support was added/improved:
D58015
D90247
So I think it is safe to now remove this complication from IR.
Note that we still have an IR-level codegen expansion pass for these as discussed in D95690. Removing that is another step in simplifying the logic. Also note that x86 was already unconditionally forming reductions in IR, so there should be no difference for x86.
I spot checked a couple of the tests here by running them though opt+llc and did not see any asm diffs.