I think a lot could be said about China and Taiwan relations, but for starters you wont get the full picture here just by looking at random polls. The issue isn’t just being part of China, it also includes a significant component of being played as a pawn by American interests against their fellow han Chinese.

Which is why they're attempting to destroy the Han Chinese identity of Taiwanese people. The DPP has been extremely instrumental in this through desinicization of the Taiwanese education system. The damage has been done as the majority of Taiwanese zoomers do not see themselves as Chinese or Han. It is, of course, not set in stone and doesn't preclude subsequent generations from being resinicized, but I think the majority of an entire generation has been lost. And this isn't even getting into the really mentally colonized ones who pine for the days when Taiwan was a Japanese colony. Taiwan is actually pretty fucked up mentally, even worse than Hong Kong, and it's precisely because it hasn't been fully decolonized like the rest of China. The PRC would have to take all this into account.

I think just like in Ukraine many people who otherwise wouldn’t want to live in Russia have come to accept that anything was better than what the Ukrainians were doing while trying to defend the territory, and so they’ve accepted the occupation for what it is, a chance of a better life. Ukraine was already significantly poorer than Russia.

This is true for supporters of the KMT, who tend to be more pragmatic and less ideologically driven outside of vague liberalism and anti-communism. The KMT also completely ate shit in the last Taiwanese presidential election. Tsai Ing-Wen, who herself was also fairly unpopular and almost got primaried, blew out her opponent by simply campaigning how the KMT is going to sell out Taiwan to China and turn Taiwan into Hong Kong (the Hong Kong protests were occurring during that time).

For Taiwan the issue will simply be how much of an economic disaster are you willing to accept for some vague idea of national identity. You don’t eat nationalism. You don’t keep yourself warm at night with nationalism.

This is the go-to argument for the KMT, who prefer maintaining the status quo and fostering business ties with the Mainland. Too bad the DPP is the ruling party, and unlike the KMT, the DPP are complete comprador sellouts. They also have almost complete control of Taiwanese media, especially popular culture. It also doesn't help the KMT once upon a time ruled Taiwan as a military dictatorship and has that terrible history behind it. In modern Taiwanese society thanks in no small part to the DPP and pro-separatist voices, the KMT is seen as the party of uncool waishengren boomers.

The question of an occupation to me is not an issue. Everyone speaks the same language and there is already a huge amount of economic integration between both countries. Taiwanese should have no problem acquiring Chinese visas and move to the mainland if necessary.

Occupation is absolutely going to be a thing if a populace is hostile towards your rule and has connections to your geopolitical rivals (ie the West).

I said in my previous post about how the status quo is soft reunification and inevitable, but I forgot about the DPP playing the role of saboteur. As the party of Japanese-simping American-bootlicking compradors. I believe they're being steered by the US to make reunification as costly and bloody as possible. They're going to lead Taiwan off a cliff. and I don't want to think of the human cost.