someone needs to speak out about it.
Not really. Anyone who's spent 10 minutes reading about cast bullets can't help but hear that; I don't think hard bullets need to be argued about in every cast bullet conversation. I don't necessarily agree with Hawk I either, but if someone prefers using hard bullets, I don't see a problem with it.
I also bet a lot more of us load on progressives than you think. Nothing wrong with using new technology when it makes things better. Personally there's no way I could shoot as much as I do if I only used a single stage.