That's the great thing about soft forks, they can be very contentious... but rammed through all the same.
If we can't hard fork while a minority disagrees, we will never hard fork again = exactly what they want. Any change desired by the politburo can be soft forked in with enough
hacking creativity.
Well, each of us is likely going based on a feeling, and my feeling is that a hard fork is more dangerous than a soft fork, and I don't see any reason to do a hard fork, even based on the information that you just presented involving the potential (maybe even speculative) ability of supposedly "powerful forces" to push potentially unwanted changes via softfork.
-Your crazy experiments are a disgrace to science!
-Those are the very words you used in denouncing me to the faculty, Professor Cconvert2G36... Science! What do you know about science... You with your high-browed put-downs and shriveled mind that refuses to recognize progress...
-What has progress to do with your foolish tamperings with nature?
-Your scheme is too utterly fantastic, Dr. JayJuanGee.