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I mean, as an electrical connector it's pretty good. But other metals tend to be better in specific cases.
It's a very critical conductor though ... every single integrated circuit on this planet that requires high speed external interfaces (basically every single high speed DRAM and CPU out there today save your low-end 8 bit microcontrollers and the like) needs high speed bond wires to get info off the silicon die and onto I/O pins at high speeds. Gold is the lowest cost conductor available to realize this in consumer markets.
And as you mentioned ... connectors need it too (though that's more to prevent corrosion). However, connectors are plated with gold. Plating is nothing compared to the amount of gold required for high speed bond wires in a typical CPU that may have 800+ connections from silicon pads to I/O pins.
Of course, one EMP that actually works, and gold is worthless for a while in that industry :-).
Platinum and silver are chemically useful for all kinds of things. Gold -- not so much.