Taproot is merely rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Much ado about nothing. Schnorr signatures, smart contracts... sounds like a history lesson.

Should I/we be excited that BTC is getting caught up? I guess. But just because they add readily available features to a coin that doesn't have the economy to use those features, then isn't this a case of too little too late?

If anyone has more in-depth details on the "upgrade", I'd like to know what is significant about Taproot that doesn't sound like BTC simply playing catch-up.

Also, because the terms hard-fork and soft-fork are blurred for most BTC proponents, can anyone confirm for me which method is being used?