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Total control over money is a guaranteed path to totalitarianism.
If money maintained stable value over the long term, companies could honestly make promises about "lifetime" pricing. These promises were probably made during the "low 2%" inflation of the past, but basic economic understanding would point out that such a plan is doomed.
Better yet, in a deflationary monetary regime, a constant price would net the companies more profit over time. Users would probably clamor for lowered prices on these plans, and companies could advertise "Lifetime pricing plans are now cheaper! You get more for less!"
If you have a few spare CPU cycles, a hybrid approximation could start with a sparse lookup table of values as the initial guess for a few rounds of a numerical approximation technique. Or you just store the first few coefficients of a polynomial approximation (as in the OP's work).
It's basically using the HTTP 402: Payment Required status code and serving up a Lightning Network payment invoice.
Edit to add: it basically solves all of the caveat issues you identified.
[0]: https://l402.org/
My favorite line from Downtown Abby: "What's a week end?"
But what if the proposed solution costs lots of people their jobs?