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I am one of the amateur astrophotographers and you right about Hubble, it is old, it uses a 16mp CCD and has an optical and pixel resolution of about 0.05 arcseconds. This equated to about 69 kilometers in one of Hubble's recent images so as you say resolving the ~5 km nucleus is out of the question.
I downloaded and processed the image below myself from the raw Hubble data and it is absolutely good data, the problem is that people have been confused and misinformed about what they are looking at. As you have touched on, what people were believing to be the nucleus of the comet was in fact a closeup view of the coma. This is a pretty featureless blob, so unsurprisingly people were disappointed with it.
Don't underestimate the quality of some amateur work. Some images were taken with professional grade equipment and we're processed carefully with full annotation and colour calibration. A lot of us will submit our raw data to various scientific projects to be included in datasets. Of course it's ludicrous and dismaying to see amateurs being held against professionals by social media the way that they are but this has been weaponized by certain people to suit their own agendas. The reference to small scale structures around the comet comes from an astrophotographer who used an unorthodox processing workflow that created digital artifacts, they were not real.
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