Not to be that guy, but wouldn’t Star Wars be the “soft” sci-fi in contrast to the “hard” science-fiction of Star Trek?
Both are soft. Once you look past the technobabble, Star Trek has almost no scientific accuracy. Hard sci-fi, at least in my definition, is stuff that has at least the scientific accuracy of the movie Interstellar. That movie is the bar that separates “hard” from “soft” for me.
You’re absolutely right. What stood out to me though was the reference to ST as “soft” in comparison to SW. If only SW and ST were relevant then I’d label ST as hard sci-fi, but in general, yes, ST takes far too many creative liberties to be considered anything but soft sci-fi.
Someone really need to coin a proper and catchy term for space fantasy so that us fans can finally start to distinguish SW from the rest of sci-fi and fantasy.