I think you should practice reading
and understanding what you're reading. You used the scientific reports in an attempt to validate your claim of using water to adjust pH. Nowhere in any of those articles does it say to use water, alone to adjust your pH. The use of sulfur, lime etc are used as soil amendments. I imagine that these articles fail to mention the use of "citric acid" in water for example, as an effective means to changing the soil pH because these are not used often in the context of professional gardening (longevity would be implicit in an effective pH solution) and are considered low quality ingredients to say the least. It's so funny how you keep referring to others as newbs.
You must know that a persons' speech patterns tell a lot about how they think and process information
. As far as understanding how soil bacteria works, all I can say to that is, "Microbe Man" "Teaming with Microbes" and "Heisenberg". To say most newbs have soil without bennies doesn't seem 100% to me either considering the availability of organic soils pretty much everywhere including Walmart and Home Depot and the high satisfactory rating associated with soils utilizing bat guano, seabird guano, worm castings and AACT all of which contain bennies - not to mention nutrients that contain these as well.
Perhaps you should have titled the thread modestly like, "How to adjust the pH of your water" and let people apply the information as they see fit?
I'm bored humor me.