So, with all respect, are you sure you aren't conflating satoshi's original vision with the vision of some early adopters who perhaps got a little carried away with the potential and subsequently raised your expectations higher than they otherwise would be? Not everything lives up to baseless hype and there certainly was a lot of that back in the day. People just naturally assumed that sending tiny amounts was viable and started shouting it from the rooftops.
You're right, maybe it was the early community getting carried away BUT Satoshi never stopped this or corrected these people, the vision of what the technology could be and bring to the world was inspiring, right now it's a digital version of god, for the wealthy an asset and store of value.
I'd rather stick to gold.
Entirely your prerogative, but many would argue that physical precious metals are definitely harder to spend than BTC is. BTC is easily divisible and highly portable. You generally don't "spend" gold, you redeem it for fiat and then spend the fiat instead. In your original post, you said:
I've just tried to send £1 worth of BTC to my other wallet, the fee was 25p that's literally 25% in fees.
Please attempt to make such a transaction using physical gold and let me know how you get on. 
BTC may not be the perfect currency, but it's much closer to being a currency than gold is.