Staking does not equal locking necessarily, I firmly believe that is a false equivalency. For example I was informed Cardano is apparently not locked for staking, and there are various DeFi protocols out there that offer early unstake.

I agree locking does help with short term scarcity and the price stability of a token, but it does not help with the long term scarcity of the token, nor the innate value of a token.

You seem to mention price and scarcity a lot, but it is all within the context of the short term. If someone wants to sell, they will sell. Would you rather someone sell 100% of their holdings over 4 weeks or 95% right now, burning 5% in the process? I would think any rational long term holder would prefer to see a 5% burn, since short term price is completely irrelevant to a long term holder. Short term scarcity or false scarcity does not help with long term price of a token since it can always be dumped at a future date, only burned tokens is out of circulation forever.

You also mention the "disastrous repercussion on our global economy and on the future of the flywheel itself", but the price of SPS is completely unrelated to the "flywheel", that is purely dependent on the price of DEC.