“There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin” is stupid and the only reason you believe it is reputation and trust in authority.
Someone with a lot of clout sounds certain about it? Must be true.
“But incentives” …are you serious.
The irony of Bitcoin maxis studying Austrian economics, understanding the Cantillon effect, history of monetary debasement, and how the powerful profit from controlling money… only to insist those same institutions will never find it profitable to inflate Bitcoin.