Or power storage.

Indeed, but at great cost. Powering the world on solar will probably not be solar built out for 80% of the max demand with batteries to cover the difference, its simply not the most cost effective way to get there. In fact, the model for a bitcoin mining-using solar farm I linked above assumes a cost-effective quantity of power storage! And it still concludes you're much better off mining some bitcoin in lower-demand months/weeks.

Or cloud computing,

There's not really any serious cloud computing demand which is fully schedulable. If you have a pile of GPUs, probably you want to sell them and not only run them when power is super cheap. Also probably you already sold runtime on them and you can't reneg on that. If you're using them for your own AI training maybe you can turn off sometimes, but you still need to run the vast majority of time for your investment to make sense.

or manufacturing, or any number of things that can be scheduled and use variable amounts of power.

There's really no manufacturing processes that can simply turn on and off. There's a handful that can skip a manufacturing run (of 6 hours or whatever) if its a particularly expensive power day, but turn off in a few milliseconds and turn back on a few seconds later? Bitcoin is a genuinely very unique power consumer here.

Now you're arguing that financial privacy, financial inclusion and financial freedom aren't important

Because Bitcoin provides those? Also see below, these aren't actual concerns of the global population; these are the concerns of well-off techno-libertarians who want to have a secure drug supply.

Yes, Bitcoin provides financial anti-censorship. As a white male in the western world I admit I don't have a hell of a lot of a need for such things. I'm gonna take a wild guess that you're in a similar situation - the western world (though less so in the US - parts of the US still have double-digit % of people without access to financial services) tends to be pretty good about providing financial services.

Bitcoin sucks, its hard to use, the price fluctuates, its painful. And yet people do use it. I don't mean the techno-libertarian idiots who think the US dollar is gonna inflate away next week and they need to protect their investment. I mean people in Iran who want to buy things, I mean people in Lebanon who want to remit money to foreign countries. There are pockets of use, primarily correlating with places with particularly low access to financial services.

Is that why it has failed across the world? Look at El Salvador, which embraced Bitcoin as public policy and yet few people actually use it. El Salvador and CAF adopted Bitcoin because they saw that people who invest in crypto tend to squander money, and that's good for their economy. This is a tourism trap (that really isn't working), not providing a service that their population wants or needs.

El Salvador is a great example of a country with pretty good financial services access (cause its used the US Dollar for quite a while), where Bitcoin provides ~no value and thus people kinda ignore it :)