Soft Boilies

There seems to be a penchant for bait makers to make them ever softer. Is it just me that this doesn't work for?
I understand the logic to a point, reduction of denaturing of the bait and also increasing leakage of attractors / flavours into the surrounding water.

The downside of this is in free bait presentation and not being able to do anything different to the masses.
I dislike spodding (noise/tight baiting). Seagulls permitting i much prefer to stick baits out to create a looser spread of bait which keeps the fish on the move searching out free baits which in my experience leads to more confident/less cautious pickups.

With soft baits you can't stick them out to any range. I can air dry them. The bait becomes harder but also a lot lighter reducing their effective range.

From an economic point of view then you have to buy hard hookers which by their nature are not the same fresh bait which you are using as loose feed.

Hard hookers are always shelflife.
what's your opinion?