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Even assuming that the whole concept of affective judgment makes sense as a fundamental cognitive process (which we shouldn't), you haven't made the case that habitually "smoothing" this judgment is an improvement (outside the pathological cases).
A relevant post that can bring some foundation to this edifice of unsubstantiated assumptions:
I believe you've misunderstood what the o.p. meant by 'smoothing'. It doesn't mean applying the halo effect and making X higher just because Y is high and close to it, or Y lower because X is low and close to it. It means evaluating both X and Y and resetting them to the most neutral justifiable values - which will almost always mean bringing them closer together, but that's a side effect, not the point of the exercise.