I meant that, in general, the devs like soft forks because they can be deployed in "stealth mode", without alerting all the users and nodes -- and therefore avoiding "wasteful" questionings and explanations. See BIP66 last July, and BIP65 that was just enabled yesterday.
In this case too, the devs seem to be decided to roll out SW without waiting for it to be scrutinized and approved by the community. (No independent applications will break, of course, unless they deserve to break.)
The development process is open, you can join the mailing list if you want to be in on their "secrets" , SW has been discussed to death since 2011.... where have you been?
I can certainly tell you haven't coded much, if any, before as the real reason devs prefer soft-fork is because of the possible bugs and complications that rolling out hard forks that aren't backwards compatible create.
You appear to be holding unfounded and irrational conspiracies which can easily be proven false.
I am assuming that, with a 1 MB limit, the network will each saturation in mid 2016. (Although there has been an extra increase in November, so that may happen in Q1 already.) I am also assuming that, six months after SW is deployed, half the traffic will still be using the old format. Then, even with half the traffic in SW format, the network will saturate anyway in 2016, but perhaps in the second half only.
This assumption doesn't match the data. Nodes Upgrading to the newest softforks is actually increasing in velocity.
http://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/block_version/5y?c=block_version&r=week&t=aBIP 65 already reach activation in short order. 0.11.2 was released only in Nov 13.
I suppose its easy to be critical and make armchair disagreements without much concern of their validity when you don't have a stake in bitcoin. I would love to see you short/daytrade bitcoin as it may bring more accuracy to your comments as it would incentivize you to better fact check.