Hard links are essentially the filename that points to an inode. Creating a hard link creates just another filename associated with the same inode. Once a hard link, always a hard link, until destroyed.
Reflink has its own fs metadata including inode, with (initially) shared extents. Those shared extents can have their blocks individually and independently modified, per file. The point at which there are no more shared blocks, they're not reflinks.
Reflink has its own fs metadata including inode, with (initially) shared extents. Those shared extents can have their blocks individually and independently modified, per file. The point at which there are no more shared blocks, they're not reflinks.