I commented to respond to this and deleted it, since I realized I was making some wrong assumptions. If you saw it, please disregard it. I'm still not convince

I commented to respond to this and deleted it, since I realized I was making some wrong assumptions. If you saw it, please disregard it. I'm still not convinced the change doesn't require a hardfork, which would involve switching chains, right? I feel like the possibility of hard forks being necessary hurts bitcoin as a "gold replacement"