This is the reason Satoshi created Bitcoin because centralized financial institutions controlled by governments are simply untrustworthy. Bitcoin can be relied upon as a hedge against inflation, you will not feel disadvantaged if you hold it in the long term.
It seems Bitcoin Core has embraced the digital gold narrative, which fails to achieve the original goal of P2P electronic cash. Do these developers really know better?
In what way do you consider it a failure, isn't Bitcoin starting to be actively used as a p2p payment method, it seems you need to dig deeper to fully understand this.