My reason for preferring hard boiled eggs is different: I don’t like runny yolks.
I fry them in butter, break the yolks, and cook them ‘over easy’. I try to get the yolks not runny but not hard - like in a soft boiled egg.
Another variation is egg-in-the-hole. Some people call it bull’s eye. I pull the center out of a slice of sour dough bread, drop it in a frying pan with butter, crack a couple eggs into the hole. Break the yolks, over easy.