With Bitcoin, Satoshi's approach was definitely a more technical approach. Although he wanted to build decentralized network to send and receive transactions, I believe the potential monetary "value" of such a system was the least important in his mind.
You are not wrong in your assertion about Satoshi Nakamoto's intentions of creating bitcoin because basically, he wanted to correct the lapses of centralized monetary institutions after the global financial crisis that struck in 2008, he wanted a transparent and decentralize medium of transacting with one another without interference from a third party and the centralized authorities and also to avoid too many challenges and ever since Satoshi Nakamoto created bitcoin, the banking system has always been faulty and many people are complaining about it but yet the only solution that will rescue us from this financial mayhem is to embrace bitcoin which Satoshi created over a decade ago to fight financial crisis. Of a truth, Satoshi's primary aim was mostly about decentralization of bitcoin as the monetary value of it that we are experiencing now was not actually in the picture but i would say that Satoshi Nakamoto actually knew that in the future, bitcoin will have monetary value if more people and institutions adopt it since the price is determined by demand and supply and he knows that bitcoin is volatile which means it has the ability of a potential growth so we cannot completely say that he is unaware that bitcoin would have monetary value.
He, as a problem solver or possibly a Computer Scientist - we don't actually know if he was one
For someone to come up with this kind of technical solution to monetary crisis, don't you think he is more than a developer and a computer scientist because sometimes i used to imagine if Satoshi was human, imagine the technicalities of what he created, and everything is just working orderly according to his plans.