"calling it as soft fork seems disengenuous"

You can do better than this

"Hard fork" and "soft fork" are well-defined technical terms. Either can cause a chain split

This was explained thousands of times to the RDTS/Knotsi crowd in recent months, on Twitter and in their Telegram group chat. But they were told by Liar @nprofile1q... that "hard" and "soft" mean "split" and "no split"

If you want to talk about controversy, and consensus, and chain splits, please do