Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Question to bitcoin devs or other techies here.

Have there been thoughts about temporary soft forks?

In other words, suppose there is some potential change to bitcoin that there is some difference of opinion in even though it seems solid overall. Rather than permanently tightening the rules (which potentially requires a hard fork to undo, depending on the change), is there a case to consider a temporary soft fork instead? Eg it becomes active for the next 100,000 blocks and then will revert to the prior state for future transactions after that point unless renewed again, temporarily or maybe permanently that time depending on consensus at that point?
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Theory of Everything 2y ago

Every BIP 300 side chain is a soft fork. Liquid BTC is in my mind the example. Faster settlement times, Two block confirmation instead of six. The 2106 problem where bitcoin ticks it’s last block is the only realistic reason to consider a hard fork, Which will eventually happen or be solved for, But ultimately it really is still a soft fork in any example of a BIP 300 protocol.

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