The hard fork cant be that dangerous ... can it
Not at all. For a hard fork to be successful it needs almost full concensus, meaning something like 99+% adoption.
A lot of people don't agree with the changes involved, so they won't adopt the new protocol, which will cause two separate chains and double spendable coins. Which chain will merchants and exchanges use?
Also it will cause a massive increase of growth of the blockchain, cause miners to stop and spam to increase.
No problem at all... lol... another day in failcoin land...
EDIT:
Did some more in depth research on this.
Apparently it's not all that bad and it will be carefully and timely phased in.
It's an important step to make bitcoin scale better.