The problem here isn’t that the dopamine rush that we get from pursuing or seeking pleasure is a bad thing in and of itself. It just awakens your mind highly enough for it to start being able to process stuff faster, which makes you become able to quickly or easily identify that your life is empty for other reasons. These missing things get noticed more readily due to the increased activity that comes from having lifted your dopamine levels slightly above the line of poverty or starvation. If anything it is just a test. An investigation technique or assessment tool that can detect that your life sucks due to many reasons or because you are missing many things in your life. The same happens with rich people and money. You’re too busy chasing survival level financial security to be able to complain about other things that you’re missing in life. Once you get that covered, other reasons for your misery start to surface unopposed, without being competed with by other unmet needs, or without getting repelled or resisted by a mind totally occupied by just getting survival needs met or covered.