Yeah I agree that's actually a really big problem in my country also there are basically no local or online stores where we can buy using bitcoins luckily I found a few traders on local bitcoin buying at a higher rate. And normally we don't see any stores which accept gold for making payments so it kind of makes sense.
While gold and bitcoin are often compared to each other in this case bitcoin is way superior, a gold coin cannot be fractioned so that is why people don't buy stuff with gold but with bitcoin you can pay exactly the amount needed to buy whatever you want so in that aspect they are very different.