You don't need to reach to philosophy to reject this. There was a deliberate decision early on to support the network via usage fees, not via holding fees: otherwise some non-zero inflation would have been the cleanest solution.
It does, of course, imply a third stage of Bitcoin's economic journey, which creates uncertainty. But you can't say people weren't warned!
https://rusty-lightning.medium.com/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058a