Your arguing over semantics. You could aruge the Jackson is more than a soft counter due to its manoverability vs slow Tiger.
And you could argue pak is only a soft counter because its static and cannot chase.
Hence, not worth arguing over They are all counters, so greater or lesser extents.
Whats important in this thread, is that if your playing Werh, you really should be looking to Paks for your mainstay AT (esspecially so in 1v1), you can augment with tigers, or Ostwinds or P4s, or whatever as you see fit.. but paks better be your main AT.
Spotting scopes parked next to paks is so good.
I wouldnt dismiss it as semantics. Hardcounters have certain implications. A single Jackson is no more deadly to a Tiger then a Single Volks Shrek squad is to an SU85. The most your going to be able to do to it is a little bit of damage and perhaps push it away for repairs. Unless of course the player is brain dead. Its much more risky to use a single Jackson against a Tiger then a Single Tiger against a Jackson.
Thus the Elephant example. An elephant will completely shut down Allied TD play by itself and stands a really good chance to kill the TD.