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While discussion of the semantics behind genre label classifications might be a nice thought activity for some people, I am not quite sure what the overall point to the discussion here is.
Even beyond the fact that different people might see each series as different things, so many anime today are multi-genre that it's hard to pigeonhole any of them into anything. Furthermore, all genre labels were meant for were to give a quick and easy method to classify anime. If someone says something is an "action" show, then it's easy to get an idea of what to expect in it. When we start trying to dissect terms like "slice of life" that originally referred to something very specific before getting mangled up, we start to stray from the very idea of classifying things as "slice of life" was never intended to be a genre category like drama.
Kokoro Connect, Tari Tari, and Hyouka are all dramas. They're different dramas of course, but using the term "slice of life" here makes little sense and almost purposeless. Simply describing them with real terms that we have a grasp of would work better. For example, Tari Tari is very obviously built as a coming of age story. Hyouka is obviously also a mystery story. KC is trickier to describe, but at its heart its a bit of a melodrama.
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