Thanks, and you're right. Back when this post was originally written, hard forks were less of an issue as the features being added or changed were less consequential.

It takes a supermajority consensus of witnesses for a successful, smooth fork of Steem. Usually the new hard forks are set to activate when 17/21 witnesses in a round are running its version.

I only documented witness opinions regarding hard forks a couple times when there was a final set of consensus changes presented.