Well, I would argue credit is the compensating benefit- and killer feature- that historically goes hand in hand with inflation, and I would say it this way- credit is generally the mechanism by which assets are discovered and incorporated into the economy, thus "inflating" it (not the technical definition of inflation, of course) and benefitting all. Technical definitions of inflation are just various measures of changes of liquidity in the credit economy.
Whether a deflationary payment system is instantly better, for me, that's a philosophical argument, between liquidity and value.
Life is uncertain. Humans take risks, invest, speculate, even just work- they need liquidity to do so, and credit mechanisms and accounting provide a structured way to do so.
I am interested in what Offset discovers, and think there is new value to be discovered in keeping a (necessarily inflationary) credit system separated from the rest of the financial world.
Cheers.