The basic question : can the market understand that a digital currency needs inflation to be fully functional? It's hard to have a Store of Value / medium of exchange on a non inflationary basis... in a PoW context. Otherwise privacy isn't even a question, but even on a clear chain the easiest way is to bring to end of life those seeking to breach it / control everything.
How do you call someone trying to follow you and see what you do each time you open your physical wallet and spend or receive a bank note? A stalker? A threat? A psycho? You can as always paper trail him to the nearest police station (if those thing still exist in your neck of the wood) or to a darker alley...
be ready for max fud by the control freaks (cbds, aka central bank digital scams) and others "open chain data harvesters".
As far as inflation goes, I personally do not think this is a settled question.
The bitcoin experiment is a long way off from no block subsidy.
Decades will pass before we get close.
Either blocksizes will have increased, or layered systems will allow bitcoin to be a settlement chain with very dense, but very expensive transactions on the base chain.
Monero will probably need this as well frankly. It's emission barely even lifts it out of deflationary status in my opinion.
I agree with you, the "inflation" rate on monero is super low... I mean as base 0.6 xmr every ~2.5min. However I think it provides just the right amount incentive to keep the miners mining and as such the network decentralized and resilient, specially that it's CPU only.
I am in no way a nobitcoiner or stupid maximalist. It's just another chain, with, imho, a closer realization of the project of satoshi.
Monero blocks are elastic, so... there is no big block psychological war here. The more txs, the more the base mining inflation is increased, hoping that it bring decentralized and resilient mining interest.
The basic question : can the market understand that a digital currency needs inflation to be fully functional? It's hard to have a Store of Value / medium of exchange on a non inflationary basis... in a PoW context.
Since you mention PoW I imagine you talk about monetary inflation. Right now, although most people are convinced opposite there is no big coin without monetary inflation. Yes many coins have plans to have none 100 years from now. But if we look 100 years back and imagine changes will be much faster in next 100 years, probably none coin will survive until then.
Only important question is what % should it be. The basic answer to this should be 1.7%, the same as Gold have. Bitcoin is there right now, and it seems it works quite well for him.
My mention of PoW was as explained above oriented primarily on the mining side of the equation. Including that holders too pay a kind of fee, by storing value in XMR, contributing as such to the safety of the PoW network (mininers income), again reinforcing the decentralized and resiliency of the network (in particular against nation state attempt of take down).
However from an economic perspective, it's madness to take a loan (bring now forward income (which is what a loan is)) in BTC... meaning that you may never be able to repay it if the supply "locks"... (be it in fiat or btc), with XMR there is an opportunity due to the low inflation rate to be able to repay it (adding the lost coins / dead holders paradigm), meaning that monero seems a good opportunity to build an economical ecosystem.
the real goal isn't to "store value" but to increase currency velocity, so that the real goods you hold, have the most use for you, at any given time.
However as you and the previous poster said, time will tell...
The inflation rate of gold is responsive to market forces.
You can buy gold with monero if you wish... but gold supply in the absolute as nothing to do with "market forces", but just the laws of the universe. The question being if the universe is infinite
. However, btc or xmr, are limited by maths... and consensus, as such the point about miners financial health.
Thanks for your replies, have you tried :
https://xmr.poker/en/join ?
what a chump. 
! XMR is made to be used ! ever tried : 