Since the entire premise of Bitcoin is a fanatical devotion to the idea that no evil government will ever be able to produce more of the currency, it seems high

Since the entire premise of Bitcoin is a fanatical devotion to the idea that no evil government will ever be able to produce more of the currency, it seems highly, highly unlikely that the deflationary "bug" in the Bitcoin protocol is one that will ever be changed by Bitcoin participants. Any other bug might be fixed. But not that one.