EXACTLY.

I have been pounding the table on this forever with all the hype-crazed .eth maxis.

It literally doesn't matter what Ethereum does, it can literally never be a better sound/hard money than Bitcoin. It's impossible, because it's core focus and core competency is elsewhere.

One sentence rebuttal that lasts forever: If Ethereum needs to add 10% inflation in order to outcompete Solana, it will always choose to do so.