People think inflation is rising prices. It isn't. We only try to measure it that way because it's impossible to measure quantity of money and credit in the fiat system, as Volcker found out, especially amid the Eurodollar system. Inflation is the increase in supply of money (and credit).

There's nothing wrong with a tail emission, even if you let the normal Bitcoin supply run on as is by the time the "21 millionth coin" is minted, the outstanding supply will be drastically lower. It's been only 17 years, and 17% of Bitcoin is already lost, by 2130 most Bitcoin would be gone by then...