I don't think "the masses" are proclaiming any revelations  

One guy says he will do a presentation demonstrating a way such soft forks can be done.  As of this writing, this claim is still unsubstantiated, and it may turn out that there are issues that make his method unworkable in practice - or he may have genuinely have found a way to soft fork any change.  In either case, there certainly has not been any blind acceptance by "the masses" of Mark's claim nor any 'proclaiming' of anything related to it.

You say "when we pointed out that soft forks ... were capable of making any change whatsoever , we were shouted down as FUDsters".  I was not aware that you and some others had already presented a method to do this kind of thing (and apparently had your method rebuked and refused by 'coreans')...  Can you provide a link to the presentation (and hopefully the 'corean' rebuking as well)?