“It extracts the most concentrated hit of dopamine and puts it in everything, while erasing all the complexity, nuance, and beauty that made it special.”
Dopamine fracking is the right name for it. Take anything with depth, drill out the one concentrated hit, and throw away the rest. Every feed, every hobby, every relationship optimized down to the cheapest jolt. The complexity that made it worth doing is the exact part they strip and discard.