What else is new about inflation?.. Nothing that hasn't already been said. Inflation has existed to some extent from time immemorial. Even in the Roman Empire, there were times of high inflation when the emperors "spoiled the coin," that is, they reduced the silver content in the coin. High inflation often accompanies economic crises in society.
Even today, inflation is at a high level. In fact, the world has not emerged from the 2008 crisis. Quantitative easing only delayed the finale. And if you think about it, 2008 is also a delayed crisis of the 1980s, which was postponed by the collapse of the USSR and the next robbery of Russia by the West.
So what kind of crisis is this that has been going on for more than 40 years? - This is the end of capitalism. Whether we like it or not, we live in an era of the slow death of capitalism, which is being replaced by a new world - the global electronic concentration camp.
There will be no inflation there, because there will be no money in the usual sense either. There will be points or food stamps (which the authorities can deprive anyone of at any time). Perhaps someday people of the future will still yearn for capitalism and inflation and wonder how the contemporaries of capitalism were unhappy with rising prices.

That last paragraph you wrote about future people yearning for inflation bothers me more than I expected. That's a world where you don't get to choose what you want to purchase because it is too expensive. And we're, like, not far from that?
CBDCs. Central bank digital currencies. More than 130 countries today implementing them. The thing people don't realize about CBDCs is that they're not "digital money" like the money in your bank is. They're programmable. As in, the issuing authority can put expiration dates on your savings, restrict what categories you spend on, limit geographic range of transactions. This is already a part of the architecture of the Chinese digital yuan.
Even as bad as inflation is, it's a system in which you still have some control over how to react. You can purchase gold, purchase land, purchase crypto, store canned goods - whatever. The response is yours.
I don't want to like the concentration camp frame, as it is hyperbolic. The logic of the structure is difficult to dispute, however. But that discomfort (the not wanting to agree but not being able to disagree) may well be the best response I have available to me right now.