I have experience with both. Not even concerned with "hype of either" My interaction with the soft tops is not working out. All the fucking zippers an foggy plastic is wearing on me. The half door windows are impossible . The glass sliders are worthless and the plastic flop-outs get covered in mud and are useless. My hard top issues were storage and shitty doors that break at the window frame. The soft top benefit is storage. That's it. It's a total POS in every other aspect. It all comes down to preference. I suppose the door thing is the majority of the issue. Soft top with a full hard top door? never seen one.
I like hanging out my door.
The plastic windows suck balls. They don't like me and I don't like them. The top is irrelevant I suppose, other than the back window is way better than the zipper BS.