Good point, I don't remember who, was in a TV interview long time ago. May be it wasn't stated but just commented. The notion of the Big Bang and the notion of nothingness before it was being analyzed.
The concept of absolute nothing is a philosophic concept first expressed by ancient greek philosopher Parmenides. In Physics nowadays the concept of an initial kind of nothingness appears but with at least some physics' laws and something obeying it (for instance the notion of virtual particles).
I think both concepts can be reconcilled with that conclusion of "Something always existed" I reached. That philosophic "something" could be precisely the physics' concept of "initial nothingness", or initial "vacuum" with "virtual particles" or whatever...
No, it is a philosophic expression. That's why I said "... if this is accepted as a postulate..."
As I showed in the OP the concept of "Something always existed" can be derived from the concept "Nothing comes from nothing".
This way the notion of ethernal Universe comes into place, of course, I know...