Absolutely. There's no storing value in something that regularly swings 20%+ on a given day. The only people who are saying this are holders of Bitcoin. It was originally designed to be a decentralized currency, and now it's not. There are much better & safer value stores, even traditional rare metals.
Worth noting: there is no such thing as a 'perfect store of value'.
We are psychologically caught up in the idea that 'gold' or 'property' has some 'intrinsic value'. Like if there were a nuclear war, it would all be cool, our 'Billions' would be protected!
But no, we can only hold on to stuff that others might find valuable some day.
In other words: currency, even 'stores of value' is a social contract within the system you operate.
If the system fails, well, both currency and stores of value are probably going to not be worth a lot.
Yes - Gold is nice because it's a default currency you can use anywhere. Property tends to hold value as long as there are people there who want to use it - and the legal system that recognizes ownership exist.
But otherwise, there is no way around it: you cannot magically store value in your pocket independent of a bunch of other complex systems being in place.
BTC is reminiscent of the 'Drain the Swamp' ideas, that somehow all the politicos and bureaucracy are useless and irrelevant. Well yes, shenanigans abound and does inefficiency, but that doesn't meant it's worse than nothing (!) our systems are made by smart people. The only way forward is 'doing something better' and BTC is probably not that.
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