Using GEP to index into a vector is not disallowed, but not recommended.
The SPIR-V backend needs to generate structured access into types, which
is impossible with an untyped GEP instruction unless we add more info to
the IR. Finding a solution is a work-in-progress, but in the meantime,
we'd like to reduce the amount of failures.
Preventing this optimizations from rewritting extract/insert
instructions into a GEP helps us lower more code to SPIR-V. This change
should be OK as it's only active when targeting SPIR-V and disabling a
non-recommended transformation.
Related to #145002
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