The collective of actively run bitcoin nodes and their corresponding implementations is what we call bitcoin. If one political faction in bitcoin decides to hard fork and gains majority share they are using politics to direct the network protocol. Gold lobbies don't change what is fundamentally a physical element nor its properties.

Do you think bitcoin can never change? If it does change how will that have happened? It will be the politics of node runners and there representatives the devs that create the implementations. Devs are the new politicians plebs vote with nodes

Bitcoin is human consensus and human consensus drifts over time. Gold is physics and the laws of nature have stayed the same for as far as i know

You think the rules of bitcoin are immutable? Are you not aware of the history of changes to the bitcoin code?

Bitcoin is just mathematics. And the laws of mathematics have also stayed the same for a long time, as far as I know. I don't think that even the infitine amount of politics can make us mine more than 21m bitcoin.

Updating and improving the code is very different than changing the rules. Bitcoin is like chess in that regard. Anybody can create their own versions, some may like the board to be hexagonal, some may think that there needs to be twice amount of pawns in play. This is ok, and imo everybody can play how they want, but they still cannot change the rules of the game of chess anymore.