Very much so... If they were serious, they’d realize that gold is a fiat currency - it has no real-world value other than what we attach to it. In all ways silver is a more valuable, useful commodity: higher conductivity (thermally and electrically), hardness, brightness, antibacterial, molecular weight, and current price.
Try to barter with a ounce - or even tenth ounce of gold; it’s like trying to buy groceries for two days with a $1000 or $100 bill. A lot easier to use silver, available in small denominations.
For metals freaks, the upside in silver is much bigger, and it has actual high-volume industrial uses as compared to gold. Gold is literally like diamonds - small real-world application, valued high simply because it’s a fiat value - deemed to be high because we want it to be high.
Silver, copper, lead - those are the metals that have big upsides.
Gold strikes me as a metal you want when you plan on long-term investing as its value goes up over time, but it’s not something you’ll want to use for day to day activities. Problem is, if TEOTWAWKI takes place, the whole system that puts value on gold also goes away. In such a case, I can see a case of whiskey and a jerrycan of .45 ACP getting you a lot further than the equivalent amount of gold by pre-collapse value.
Industrial metal prices have industrial factors tied into their price/value which can be bad for an investor in an industrial slow down.
But that being said, I agreed with everything you said about Silver. Gold has its monetary utility; but Silver has that as well, plus much more. I like the yellow metal, but I like the white metal a lot better myself.