The Gemara in Pesachin (41a) says straight out that you can fulfill the mitzvah of eating matzah using matzos that were soaked in water.
The Raavan, a rishon, states that some people refrained from dipping matzah into soup on the first night of Pesach. He says it’s NOT because they were concerned it would become chometz. It was so the taste of matzah wouldn’t be changed, and they wanted the taste to stay in their mouths all night.
The main source of the minhag today is from R’ Shneur Zalman Liadi, who held that since they changed the method of making matzos, by greatly shortening the time, it wasn’t kneaded as well, and some flour remained on the top of the matzos, that wasn’t kneaded into the dough. This is against what Rashi and the Rambam say, that flour which was heated in an oven can’t become chometz. There are others who disagree with them as well. R’ Shneur Zalman, when discussing the minhag of gebrokts, says the halachah is like Rashi and the Rambam, but since the Arizal said to be extra stringent on Pesach, we should take the other opinions into account, and be stringent.
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