you gotta mix the two. Some “easy pleasure” (hedonism) and some “productive pleasure” (Eudaimonia).

Otherwise you look back on your free time and go “oh my god, I just sat there and did x” instead of “I relaxed and I even got to do XYZ, which was meaningful”.

Source : Burnt out, then got sick that all I did was work, the play meaningless rougelikes I already beat, leading to worse depression