Inflation may be inevitable but it could be under control if hard assets were used directly to buy products and services, examples of this are bitcoin and gold, or this could be done by backing paper money with those solid assets, the issue is that if the latter option is adopted the temptation for the government to eventually abandon that system is too great as the benefits they get by doing so are enormous, but the consequences everyone else has to pay come in the form of high inflation and eventually hyperinflation follows as well.
We have been long away from the gold standard and I do not think that we could ever even consider going back there with how the finances are these days. I mean you are not wrong, we could limit inflation and even poverty to a certain degree if money had value because it gives people the right to save money and then do something with it, compared to today where you save money but the pace you save it is slower than the value it loses to inflation.
I could save 1k a year today, and in 50 years I would have 50k, but in 50 years, 50k may not buy what 1k buys today, or at least it wouldn't be 50k of today for sure, hence if gold standard was a thing, we would have been much closer.