I can see merit to that, as it's trying to be a good money more than Ethereum, and nation states won't adopt a currency with technical risk.
I just think it ossified way too early and then to justify that they come up with religious arguments that "actually 21m coins on a diminishing curve is the perfect economic policy and any meddling is bad"
Sure, but it ossified at the behest of its community who could have chosen more progressive forks but decided not to. Given how well bitcoin is doing it wasn't a bad call. And if someone doesn't like what bitcoin is (not) doing there's plenty of other cryptos they can move to. So far no crypto seemes to be able to win the holy grail for mass business adoption and it's really hard to tell which one can manage that if any
I just think it ossified way too early and then to justify that they come up with religious arguments that "actually 21m coins on a diminishing curve is the perfect economic policy and any meddling is bad"