seems people dont read the OP properly

first of all the "value"(ethos/utility) the op is talking about is not the price(market). but the reason/utility/usefulness values of bitcoin.

for me a hard fork is what i would call a controversial fork where a large proportion of the community gets affected.
a soft fork is something that occurs with a minority group gets affected
and then what some devs call 'inflight upgrades' is where no one gets affected

for instance
the 2013 leveldb bug was a temporary hard fork which didnt result in an altcoin creation but did affect a large amount of the population at the time.
another example of a hard fork was the mid 2017 controversy where before a feature even activated, nodes were pushing detractors and opposition off the network, which then culminated in another altcoin due to people not wanting to give up their objections and instead just give up fighting core by just walking off and making an altcoin

a soft fork is when without needing to affect a large controversial amount of users only 5% get affected and they only get affected due to the activation of a feature that reached such a high agreement by offering something that the community could agree on without threat or demand or pre kicking off the network.

then an inflight upgrade would be what happened in spring 2018 where things like bc1q was added and no one even noticed or got affected or found themselves lost outside the network

now with core having what they desired. a network of core nodes that goes unopposed, so that as long as people continue to just sheep upgrade their nodes to the latest core release. core dont have to worry about hard forks no more. they can just do as they please and add what they like. yea i know some people dont want to be called sheep. after all they think they have become enlightened and 'woke' from the old boys club of fiat bankers. but have yet to realise they swapped one boys club for another

bitcoin has lost its diversity and lost its byzantine generals solution now that there is one general in charge of the rule change options.

bitcoins ethos and unique revolutionary feature has been lost. and so now people are questioning what is left for bitcoins utility/uniquness 'values' especially now the shephards herding the sheep want to deburden the bitcoin network by swaying the sheep into the commercial fields of LN and out of the organic fields of yesteryear known as the original ethos of bitcoin