Been in bitcoin for years. Each time there is an improvement in protocols there will always be FUD. But it will be good to look above the technical issues and see the basis of how bitcoin works: a community that supports the development and use of bitcoin. And as long as they support and sustain btc, it doesn't matter how many hardforks occur.
It doesn't matter, and yet it really does because it can affect the way the people who haven't drank the Kool-Aid yet view things. Right now, people are either seeing a new technology taking off, or a bubble that's about to pop, and either way they're interested. Some want to get in early and ride it to the top, and some want to get in early and cash out before it blows up, but either way it has a lot of momentum. More forks create more uncertainty. Even if it's not actually a fork but just an alteration of the technology by a consensus, it causes some uncertainty; a real hardfork, where a large portion of the miners go in a different direction, could be far worse. Some people were saying that they recommended not initiating any transactions with Bitcoin for two weeks after the soft fork, but most people ignored that and went on with business as usual after a day or two. If it actually took two weeks or a month for people to start using Bitcoin again, that would slow the momentum down significantly; or worse yet if a hard fork and patchy adoption of technology actually made a lot of people flat-out lose their coins it wouldn't be easy to recover. People got past Mt. Gox, but that was with much lower value in Bitcoin and was also only one bad actor. A slight mistake in a hardfork costing billions with no possibility of reimbursement, since there's no central agency... well, right now we're seeing institutional investors very interested in Bitcoin, but at the first appearance that the technology is flawed a lot of potential investors might be heading for the hills. Of course, it might also just cause another buying frenzy once the sharks see all that red ink in the water.
I'm glad that you have faith, but in my experience nothing is certain. You might say I'm absolutely certain that nothing is certain, actually...