The world will not die with a bang, but with a whisper. I believe that this soft Fork while it solved many problems, basically since people up for hard Forks in the future. Basically, you get people past the first soft Fork, build up a lot of fear, and then show them there was nothing to be afraid of. Then, after a little more time is past. You start issuing a few more soft Fork here and there.
Problem is: no reason to trust bitcoin-core developers.
You get people desensitized, to code changes, get them to the point where they expect him every few weeks or every few months or whatever, and then once a forking is no big deal, that's when you slam in the hard Fork with the big changes.