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.
Blunderer: You are really talking non-sense in this above post, but I will accept your arguable nonsense as if it were some recognition for potential artful expression, even though it borders on an attempt to distract readers of this thread from our topic which in this particular post initially was meant to be (to the best of my knowledge) the practical application of bitcoin hard/softfork in the real world speculation.. blah blah blah.