"Yet, historically, when forced to make the choice, governments have almost always chosen continuation of fiscal policy over the gold standard. Many times (e.g., the early 1930s), governments chose the gold standard only for things to get even worse and instead opt for fiscal policy. In the long run, every country has ultimately abandoned the gold standard."

This. There's a lot of very very smart people who are totally lost among the trees on the technicalities of Bitcoin who don't get this 1 simple aspect. It's never happening.