The boar is softer when the tips are broken. And not all the brushes are the same quality.
Quality boar is better for the price you paid than first level badger. Sometimes, quality badger it's not better than quality boar. And yes I have several brushes that you can see in the SOTD section. For me the best brush for soaps in perfomance/money is the Semogue 1800. This brush gives me better lather than my shavemac D01 silvertip, and its feeling is simmilar to the Plisson HMW