I don't think it will ever be okay.   Inflation is a tax on the poor.  All the new coins simply end up in the hands of the economic elite within the coin and smaller holders are penalized.

There's a lot of inflationary coins out there (PoW and PoS) and most of them fail with time.  What's the point of cryptos as a store of wealth when I can open an account at Vanguard Investment and get 1%-2% return above inflation and it is almost guaranteed my money will be there in the next 12 months?

I think it's crazy that people think 1%-5% annual inflation is ok.  It's not OK for me to lose 25% of my wealth in 5 years so some crypto-elite can have more money.  Even 5% is too much.  It's my money, I am not giving it away to some wealthy person through a hidden tax like inflation when I am already paying out of the a$$ for real world taxes (which ironically goes to the rich due to all the corruption within the government or the rich being the government).


If you want people to spend their coins then you need to stop using Communist tactics.
Vladimir Lenin: "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."


The way you get people to spend their coins is to increase the price of the coin or to give them incentives to spend.  PoI in a way is a lot like those reward points you see in credit cards / debit cards and people love that stuff.