That is correct. From seeing films and videos, people talk about O-Sensei practicing differently at various stages of his life. I never knew O-Sensei since the young times. But O-Sensei said young people train hard. But when I met O-Sensei he was old, his technique was very soft.
People think that.
He would bounce me off the mat when I took ukemi. People don't know that. Those uninformed people are bringing Aikido down, they are destroying it. It just looks soft. If they just follow that part they are missing something.