I mean no ones perfect, that's why BIPs exist and have to go through such a rigorous process to get adopted.
There's an idea for a video, "So you want to change the code, good luck"
Few know that there was a bug in money supply of Bitcoin, made by Satoshi
Yes, as you read.
There is a controversy on if this was intentional, or just a bug introduced by Satoshi when he programmed Bitcoin. But the bug causes this money supply graph:
As you can see, after a large period of flat supply, it jumps again up with 50 btc per block, and the cicle repeats indefinetly.
Yes, I know, those are a lot of years, and not even our grandchildren will see it happening. But ey, better to have the future well tied!
The core programmer Pieter Wuille solved it in BIP-0042 ten years ago:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0042.mediawiki
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