Exactly this.
HeRetiK boilded it down to an essence.
Satoshi didn't want to attract investors. He didn't want to get rich. It was a proposal for a peer-2-peer digital currency. The first one.
Noone cared about the economic aspects.
My point is that you cannot separate the economic aspects from the proposed way of solving double spending with the whole PoW system as if you lived in a vacuum. In order for the project to be functional in the real world it would need to grow from the economic pov otherwise all the code would be useless, thus why both are interrelated and why I find it interesting that there are 0 mentions of it on the whitepaper.