Solar does. Batteries don't. At least not cost-effective ones.

Why go half way when you could do it the right way from the beginning.

Gas plants are built all around the globe right now.

Several decades?

You mean 2 right? With 1 percent performance degradation, each year. Producing electricity when the weather gods don't find it to be too much trouble:

I am not stopping anyone from using solar or wind power. The market should, if there was one. Do you know how many more nuclear plants (existing tech) we could've built for the 5 or so trillion wasted with unreliables in the past decades?