How could it be any worse?
Well, in Pages you can make it visible (Show Invisibles command), but only on its own. It “disappears” between characters.
There is a solution, of course. We can use a visible symbol (one we don’t need for anything else) and get Compile to replace it with the soft hyphen.
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I shouldn’t find this funny, but I do. 
that’s even worse.
Yeah, but ideally you’d just see it when turning on invisibles, just as proposed 
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Maybe the stand-in could be invisible, but not stubbornly so. A thin space would take up horizontal space and should be highlighted when we use Find.
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True, but this weird behavior is baked into Apple’s text engine used by Scrivener (it works the same wrong way in Apple’s TextEdit, [and in a different wrong way in Apple Pages]).
Ok, that explains a lot. I’ve resorted to using the Replace-a-weird-character-in-compile approach as I’m both under Windows and macOS. Messes with the word count, though.
However, as Word for macOS seems to have found a way to natively integrate it, the point still stands for the wishlist
Word has nothing whatsoever in common with Pages, or any editor built on the Apple TextKit including Scrivener and TextEdit itself. Word is entirely programmed by Microsoft using their own text engine; so the fact that Word displays it doesn’t mean that Scrivener will.
Mark
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Oh I didn’t know that. 
well, there’s hoping!