That was a good pic with the kittens and hard cover, ark. On topic too. Here, have a like.
My scientific wisdom on hard? Well, there's still uses for it. Like in my yesterday match against Geth on Goddess hanging out in the LZ with my fellow pugs as DemoGirl, where I was in constant hard cover and only coming out to stagger the living daylights out of those Geth with a few Arc & Homing Nades (look ma! No lousy manifest weapons needed!). But if I were using something like the Claymoar, then yeah, that would of been perfect for hard cover too.
If anyone really wants to play only the soft cover game, play Volus (Merc), because all of a sudden all hard cover turns into soft cover. ... Or pretent to be a kitten and start abusing your hard cover abilities... think I'll go outside and try this out?