That's just returning to normal. The world has used gold as currency for thousands of years, only after 1971 gold lost the status. So gold really only lost the currency status for a little more than 40 years, it's just a period of abnormality. We will probably soon return to the norm of viewing gold as currency.
+1. This is why reading history is so valuable: it frees one's perspective from the selection bias inherent in one's own narrow personal life experience (on this forum, almost certainly shorter than 40 years for most posters).