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No.
Enjoyment is not the thing that makes behaviors addictive. Reinforcement is (to a large extent) a biological process distinct from enjoyment.
No.
Yes.
This line of questioning is not deep. It is silly. While there is a similarity between the things in the list {WoW, cocaine, sex} it is not strong enough or of the right kind to make it sensible to generalize from 'WoW bad' to 'therefore enjoyable things bad or WoW good'.
Just look at the expected consequences of the mentioned activities. Roughly speaking it goes {'slight positive, large negative', 'just lots of negative', 'huge amounts of positive'}. Act accordingly.
There are plenty of positives associated with cocaine. Hell, if you really wanted to get stuff done... it puts Adderall to shame.
(Or so I've heard.)