Again, you are wrong. ETH/ETC was/is a hard fork. There is no more perfect example of a hard fork. One group of people wanted to "change the rules" the other group did not. So they went their separate ways on separate block chains. That is the definition of a hard fork.
hard BILATERAL SPLIT fork
google: --oppose-dao-fork
lets even quote cores immortal lord and master
What you are describing is what
I and others call a bilateral hardfork-- where both sides reject the other.
I tried to convince the authors of BIP101 to make their proposal bilateral by requiring the sign bit be set in the version in their blocks (existing nodes require it to be unset).
Sadly, the proposals authors were aggressively against this.The ethereum hardfork was bilateral, probably the only thing they did right--
too many people think that soft = 1 thing and hard =1 thing.
but infact you can have splits done by going soft or hard.
but infact you can have controversy done by going soft or hard.
but infact you can have concensus done by going soft or hard.
but the propaganda machine just talks and wants to think of soft best case scenario and hards worse case, to fit a scenario of the narrator
but this should clear it up
clarity
soft and hard is simply:
soft: pool only vote
hard: nodes and pools vote
below these umbrella terms is what could happen.. in both hard and soft it can either continue as one chain. or bilateral split
softfork: consensus - >94% pools no banning/ignoring of minority. result: small 5% orphan drama then one chain. minority unsynced and dead
softfork: controversial - >50% pools no banning/ignoring of minority. result: long big% orphan drama then one chain. minority unsynced and dead
softfork: bilateral split - intentionally ignoring/banning opposing rules and not including them. result: 2 chains
hardfork: consensus - >94% nodes, then >94% pools no banning/ignoring of minority. result: 5% orphan drama then one chain. minority unsynced / dead
hardfork: controversial - >50% nodes, then >50% pools no banning/ignoring of minority. result: big% orphan drama then one chain. minority unsynced / dead
hardfork: bilateral split - intentionally ignoring/banning opposing rules and not including them. result: 2 chains