Let's for one minute say that what you're saying is correct, that Satoshi was not a person but a group of people and it is a government project, what did they expect to achieve with it?
Think about the sort of people Bitcoin attracts: Anti-government anarchists, tax cheat, drug users, the pathologically foolish, internet criminals... Like Pooh Bear to a
Honeypot...
Ehh? Yeah, now you're getting it...

What you stated can be said for all forms of payment, including online payments
such as gift cards, paypal, and things like skrill & etc.
You'd have a great point there if DNMs accepted gift cards and PayPal. I'll let you figure out why they don't, as a thought exercise.
Why would a government release Bitcoin/bitcoin, creating a Pandora's box of
unknown future possibilities that is uncontrollable and hurtful to that creator nation?
What you're really asking is "why would a government create something it couldn't control." The answer to that is "It obviously wouldn't."
Which means that they can control it. Or have some sort of back door/kill switch/shit we know nothing about but they do.
That is like saying a government would release a whitepaper on how to create a nuclear bomb
from materials found within the average household, so that they can monitor who will use it.
Now that it is public knowledge, there is great risk of destruction of what already exists.
By releasing it, they themselves caused their own eventual destruction.
No, it's like a government releasing a whitepaper on how to create a nuclear bomb
from materials found within the average household, and then watch people downloading that white paper, and buying the household chem.
Caveat: The bomb, when built per gov. plans, is as menacing as a big cuddly stuffy. You only think you're building a bomb, the feds just watch & lel.
If it is indeed a government operation, there needs to be a better reasoning to release it,
that outweighs the uncontrollable paradigm shift. Just to watch "criminals and nuts" is too simple.
If you could understand how Bitcoin is a honeypot, it wouldn't be much of a honeypot now, would it?