Hard link doubt

[wet breach]

In hard links, the system assigns a chain of disk blocks to what is called an inode, which is then associated with the name part. Each hard link therefore refers to a specific inode containing the file’s contents.
Symbolic links are a special type of file that contains a text pointer to the target file or directory.

How are hard links and soft/symlinks different then when they both basically point to a chunk of data?

[storm granite]

They change the mean of getting to the data

Hard links are useful for Timeshift for example, they can save space by avoiding copying the same source file if it has not changed