Thank you for an extremely well thought out and written article. Dopamine is a very difficult topic to articulate, and you’ve done so exceptionally well.

I do think it’s important to regulate one’s supply of dopamine because too little or too much can be detrimental.

My article may be ‘dated’, but I found it very helpful to delineate the difference between ‘wanting’ and ‘liking’, by referring to the incentive salience theory.
https://cezjah.medium.com/reward-prediction-error-vs-incentive-salience-94f396114ad8