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Self-modifying not to feel discomfort from drinking Mountain Dew isn't at all the same thing as self-modifying to want to drink Mountain Dew keeping discomfort constant. The latter isn't something you want to do on pain of committing the Wirehead Fallacy. The former isn't something that "want to want" language really applies to, as far as I can see.
I interpret "wanting to want" as encompassing the former, and don't really see any reason to limit it in the way you suggest. But either way, we have no substantive disagreement.