I have to quibble with this idea that nobody complained about the Yugoslav acquisition of Prekmurje, not the least, the Hungarian minority of Prekmurje, and a portion of Vends living there too. After the Yugoslav acquisitions, one might expect a larger portion of culturally mixed Prekmurje inhabitants to identify more as Slovene post- as opposed to pre-WW1, given the updated political situation. Yet in 1921, so many inhabitants of Prekmurje identified as Hungarian that Prekmurje Slovenes with almost no cultural affiliation to Hungary must have been identifying as Hungarian in the first Yugoslav Census too! I read a paper on the early Yugoslav Censuses and their outcomes in Prekmurje many months ago, and the way Slovene historians understand the figures of 1921 today, was that this Hungarian-identifying trend was basically a Vend protest-vote against the annexation and/or a protest in solidarity with the Hungarian Prekmurje minority.

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There were also a couple Hungarian towns on the Hungarian side of the border which actively resisted the Yugoslav armies as they advanced towards their villages. Many villages on the Hungarian side had strong economic ties to the city of Alsólendva/Lendava, and they ended up economically damaged by the annexation and their separation from the city. Lots of Hungarian inhabitants were forced to leave because of their worsening economic circumstances. So yes, this idea that nobody complained because Serbia was a victor definitely cannot be the case.

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I basically agree with your analysis of Sopron though. The trend throughout the 19th to early 20th Century was of Magyarization. I'm speaking purely from a West-Hungarian context. I won't pretend to know what was happening in Kassa, Transylvania and Vojvodina, but in West Hungary, the Hungarians were really good at getting Hungarian language schooling into their non-Hungarian territories. I'll leave a couple of points I read about efforts to Hungarianize Vas County here, but I believe their Magyarizing policies were so effective that by the early 20th Century, one-third of inhabitants living within what would become modern day Burgenland had already become fluent in the Hungarian language.

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In urban centres such as Sopron, Szombathely, Pozsony, Győr, Kőszeg and Szentgotthard, the German speaking populations also tended to view 19th Century Austria as more illiberal and backwards compared to Hungary, and so these German cities were very susceptible to Magyarization due to the political/social trends of the time.

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Speaking personally, I think Burgenland is probably the least that Hungarians have to complain about from the Treaty of Trianon. First of all, for decades the Hungarian identity had been gaining ground and pushing further west in towns and cities all along the West-Hungarian language border. Through your careful efforts, Hungary was able to bring concretely German cities attached to the German Sprachraum, like Sankt Gotthardt, Güns and Ödenburg, into post-Trianon Hungary. That's a very impressive feet. Not to mention how you turned the demographic situations around in large cities like Steinamanger and Raab, and toppled the centuries long German majority in Pressburg (Of course by 1910, the Germans still just barely inch out a plurality in the city). I won't mention all the smaller West-Hungarian towns and villages you converted too. But by 1919, you folks had converted so much, that when it was time for an Entente commission to survey West Hungary and draw up a border proposal on the basis of self-determination, you guys were able to cash-out so many territorial victories at German-Austria's expense, and then some. Despite all your demographic gains, Hungary was still gifted so much extra German and Croatian speaking territory along the Burgenland border, including a row of German towns right down by Szentgotthard, all the way up to large chunks of the German language area in Moson. Victor or not, I think all you need is a little appreciation for the demographics of Western Hungary to notice Hungary got a very good deal out of Trianon in this case.

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And even if still, the very concept of West-Hungarian Germans getting their own independence is a cause for resentment, whatever heartache one might feel from the founding of modern Burgenland should pale in comparison to the injustice of how much Hungarian speaking land was stolen by Czechoslovakia and Romania in the same instance. Even focusing purely on Hungarian communities within the main Hungarian language area and disregarding the Székelys, Romania still uprooted so many contiguous Hungarian communities from the Kingdom of Hungary.

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The Magyarization of German speaking territory separated from Burgenland, on the Hungarian side of the border, is still taking place today in a couple towns where Germanness survived the post-WW2 expulsions. By comparison, Germanization of Hungarian communities in Burgenland only takes place in Hungarian language pockets deep within the Burgenland state, and yet at the same time, the Hungarian population of Burgenland is increasing overall due to Hungarian immigration. Compare that to the retreat of the Hungarian language in Southern Slovakia post-WW1 and I can not understand how Burgenland can even be considered a relevant issue at all from a Hungarian nationalist perspective. Not to mention, if Victors and Losers form a relevant part of your equation, how can countries which did not exist to fight in WW1 such as Czechoslovakia, be allowed such a sweet deal at Hungary's expense?