Of course Bitcoin was created with the opposite view. And yet Bitcoin is inflationary, at least in its youth, and needs to be because its PoW mining is so expensive it needs the inflation to create new coins to pay the miners for their hashpower. Where-as PoS does not need to be inflationary because PoS mining (that is, validating transactions) needs trivial computer resources. So to me it seems ironic that so many PoS coins have adopted inflation. I'm surprised and saddened that PoS has become so associated with inflation.
Anyway, you can avoid the inflation by staking, and then it acts in your favour. It's not clear what proportion of people will do that. I know I like to keep my bitcoins in cold storage, for security, and I like to let my computer sleep to save electricity. I have to wonder, if a lot of people stake, whether the community will be more vulnerable to hackers, and whether the loss of electricity from all those computers being left active 24/7 will undo much of the benefits of PoW.