Why do I care if you look like depressive but you are not depressive?
Because when you mask your splitting with your centrism, you mistake the landmark of neutrality. Since true neutrality doesn't exist, you pick the location that's most convenient for you and call it neutrality. Convenient how, I don't know. Socially convenient that makes you the most popular among your peers. Intellectually convenient that doesn't require you to search for the conflict evidence.
Someone with rather extreme opinions might be more depressive and less splitting. “How? That doesn't sound like what I learned at school!” Depressive is not a fixed position. It's about as much uncertainty one can bear. The more uncertainty that person is capable of, the more they are open to new evidence and ideas and to change their positions. Your fake centrism is as rigid as splitting. And while it's less offensive than splitting, I don't think it's very reliable, and even misleading.
Not that one way to live is better than the other. Depending on what kind of relationship I want to achieve. Well, if I want a social media consultant, I'll go with the fake centrist. If I want to be heard, I'll go with the real depressive.