You do know that there is a finite amount of gold on the Earth and that eventually all of it will be mined?

I don't necessarily have anything against a coin with perpetual debasement, as long as the cost of creating the new currency is equal to or more than the value of the new currency, and it happens in a decentralized fashion. Like you said, the main problem is centralized debasement, and it's because it costs them very little to generate the new currency and because they hand it out to a small group of banks instead of to the average joe. I don't necessarily care if my savings go up in value or not, what I care about is that my savings HOLD THEIR VALUE. The reason people save their wealth in gold is because they trust gold to be a secure store of value, and the reason they trust it is because they know gold cannot be created out of thin air. The same thing essentially applies to Bitcoin, I know that bitcoins are very difficult to create and it requires a lot of electrical energy to generate them.

The stone money used on the island of Yap is a good example of why it's important for a currency to be hard to create, but it's also an example of why perpetual debasement can work so long as the currency is hard to create. It was extremely difficult for them to create those huge donut shaped stones, so every time a new stone coin was created the market didn't freak out because the market knew a lot of energy was burnt up in their creation. And there was essentially no limit to how many coins they could create, so long as they didn't find an easy and cheap way to craft the stones into a donut shape then they could keep making them and adding new coins into circulation without worrying about price inflation. You can even have an increasing money supply while the value of the currency is increasing at the same time, in fact that's exactly what has been happening with Bitcoin for the last few years.

The problem with government fiat money is not necessarily the fact that they debase it, it's that they can cheaply and easily put new currency into circulation and they don't have to hand it out in a decentralized fashion, they simply hand it out to large member banks. And they create so much that they not only prevent price deflation, they debase the money supply to such an extreme degree that they cause consistent price inflation. That is the type of perpetual debasement I dislike, excessive and stupid debasement used to fund wars and other nonsense that no one wants. Bitcoin was designed precisely to make that sort of thing impossible, it was supposed to be a finite resource in a digital form, like digital gold in other words. That is the fundamental philosophy behind the way Bitcoin is designed.

Fundamentally I agree with you that perpetual debasement can be a good thing, what I don't agree with you about is that a finite money supply is a bad thing. They both have their advantages, gold will always be trusted so long as the amount on this planet always remains finite. Bitcoin will always remain relevant for the same reason. Obviously there are things which make a better currency than gold, just as there may be cryptocurrencies better for use as a currency. But that doesn't mean gold or bitcoin cannot be used to conduct trade, and the finite nature of gold and bitcoin doesn't make them some sort of evil "corporate top-down controlled fully compliant government's money". How you reach such an absurd conclusion is beyond me. The centralized nature of mining could take away some of the decentralization of Bitcoin, but that's just about the limit of it.

But that's not a "flaw", the people with the most resources will always have the most power, that's just a simple rule of the world and it will aways exist. Of course we can attempt to minimize the effectiveness of their resources but they will always have an advantage by having more resources at their disposal. People will always be attracted to Bitcoin because of its features, but there's no reason Bitcoin can't coexist with other cryptocurrencies which improve upon the basic design. You need to learn that there is a place for everything, stop looking at things with such a black and white perspective. Bitcoin is not flawed, it simply is what it is, and if you want something different then build it and prove to us how much better it is.

Edit: added extra paragraph to expand on my explanation.