Yes I very much agree pain can be excessive sometimes. I'd personally prefer that we get rid of it altogether and someday replace it with some system that's more accurate and less affectively negative. Pain is quite primitive. And perhaps our increasing wield of technology is the way in which we take more control?

I didn't actually downvote you myself, I had thought it was due to what I took as an implied suggestion that we get rid of our pleasures, or that they are a curse. I replied what I did because I find the argument, quite unconvincing, and had seen elsewhere people putting it forward. But perhaps you aren't so much, and I was sadly biased from my prior experience.

I suppose you could say I'd like to overthrow all the overloads (or just the one as I see it), take the reins of my own affective destiny and all that, and you might also say that no such overlord is my proper pal. What I would say is that I'm extremely grateful to them for my enjoyment of sex and milkshakes, for:

Every interest we think we have, every sensation we believe we enjoy

I'd also say that I do have those interests and honestly do enjoy the sensations, regardless of the blind god that gave them to me, or why.