Just how bad are SOAS protests and strikes? Did it affect you?

I've received an offer from SOAS for IR and everything about the uni is very appealing to me, except one thing. I know all unis tend to have a left wing student union who love to protest. But SOAS students appear to be more extreme in that regard. Occupying buildings isn't something I've heard of happening anywhere else.
Of course, I wouldn't care if it didn't have an impact on my education. So my question to current and former SOAS students is, has a SOAS protest ever significantly affected your education? And considering that, would you recommend going to SOAS?
(I'm aware that a similar post asking a similar question was made about 6 years ago, but that was prior to covid and the building occupations last year)

Occupying buildings happens all the time at other unis. It used to happen on nearly a yearly basis in Cambridge when I was working there. The Cambridge protestors also caused criminal damage to buildings on more than one occasion (one time they threw a brick through a lecture theatre window while a lecture was ongoing). So you should dispel any assumptions that protesting is "unique" to SOAS, some symptom of being "overly" left wing there, or that it's worse there than at other unis.

Also striking is very different to protesting and usually wholly unrelated. All unis (and indeed, most public services) have had strikes recently, and will continue having them until the incompetent Tory government is kicked out of Westminster.

In any case, when I was as SOAS I wasn't really affected by the strike action - we missed some timetabled sessions but had no issues with continuing the course, and in the summer before exams my lecturer for the affected module had a couple extra sessions with us on some topics of interest that wouldn't normally be covered in the examinable syllabus, which were great. I was fully in support of the strike action at SOAS as I didn't agree that the lecturers who worked so hard for the students there should have their pensions crippled and effectively made so they can't afford to retire just so some prick at a hedgefund can buy a second superyacht.

Building occupations may well have happened at other unis. But they clearly aren't occurring as regularly at some unis like my main alternative, LSE (last one was in 2015). The frequency and severity of these kinds of protests might not be entirely unique to SOAS when you look at all unis across the UK. But among my 5 options SOAS is the worst offender.
However, the whole point of the post was to find out if the protests had any significant effect on students' education, and tbf you did share your experience so thanks

LSE has something like 70% international students on visas, who also are paying a lot of money and have less reason to become involved in longer term often (relatively) local political issues. So not a hugely accurate/relevant comparison.

Also you may want to consider that they are common at most unis however at most unis they aren't reported except by local uni papers, and SOAS happens to draw particular attention due to it's perceived "left wing bias" from major right wing leaning publications. You may want to consider the underlying motives of what gets reported and why, and who benefits from that reporting.

I've received an offer from SOAS for IR and everything about the uni is very appealing to me, except one thing. I know all unis tend to have a left wing student union who love to protest. But SOAS students appear to be more extreme in that regard. Occupying buildings isn't something I've heard of happening anywhere else.
Of course, I wouldn't care if it didn't have an impact on my education. So my question to current and former SOAS students is, has a SOAS protest ever significantly affected your education? And considering that, would you recommend going to SOAS?
(I'm aware that a similar post asking a similar question was made about 6 years ago, but that was prior to covid and the building occupations last year)