waw
Pro Adventurer
Assigning chess-master levels of intelligence or our personal level of caring for details and minutia about SOLDIER to President Shinra is outright bizarre. We knew from the Original Game that President Shinra... tends not to care so much about details and instead values results. Between his dismissive interaction with Cloud in the Original Game's version of his confrontation with Avalanche before Airbuster, to his meetings with Reeve where he outright ignores the expert telling him that dropping the Sector 7 Plate is a terrible idea both ethically AND in terms of engineering/ infrastructure. When he wants something done or has a particular aim... he's going to ignore what others tell him. So, why would he care about the differences between two different genetic types of SOLDIER? That's Hojo's job, not his.
I think we may be at an impasse over the President, but your reasonings here is why I think he'd have a deeper knowledge of SOLDIER than you're assigning to him. Sure, he may not be able to identify all members, or S from G type. But after the failures of SOLDIER, problems in the organization, it's frankly ridiculous that he wouldn't have more oversight or awareness of it.
Similar to Heidegger crying about reports.... folks don't really get into their positions by being cartoonishly incompetent.