RE: Using Bitcoin Without Spending It.
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Yeah, my main point of disagreement is the idea that holding crypto is the best thing to do with it.
The other stuff...
The way I define portability in the article has to do with its usability in different situations. Yes, you can transfer your crypto to other wallets around the world, but can you then use it as money in that new place? Crypto is gaining some ground on this front, but it still has a ways to go. If you are defining it as only the ability to move money across borders, then crypto is the clear winner.
I agree divisibility is the least important metric here. You can add n-th precision to crypto, so it's the technical winner.
Store of value is poor for crypto because of that volatility, whether it be increasing or not. If I put 8 apples of purchasing power value into crypto and come back a year later, will I have 8 apples of purchasing power still? 99.9999% chance it will be drastically different. With fiat, you'll probably have 7.5 apples of purchasing power left, which isn't great, but it's way more predictable than crypto.
Unit of account pairs with divisibility and isn't all that important as both function fine. Crypto has the same technical advantage with precision though.