The goal is not perfect dilation of that deep feeling.

Just take care with dilation that the deep feeling is not lost to those experiences which have a greater predisposition towards dilatedness but are ultimately wrong.

Dilation is neither virtuous nor sinful.

Dilation defines experience and process determines dilatedness.

In the hierarchy of dilation a subtler feeling can be overshadowed by other feelings more readily dilated.

The infectious nature of fun in that described above does not belie a meaninglessness but originates from its compellingness and very disposition towards dilation rather than any meaningfulness or relevance.

Satisfying mechanisms emerge from systems built upon metaphor or feeling; goals and optimization make them instead games about those "unintentional" mechanics.

Finally I can arrive at the crux of my argument regarding dilation:

A work that shifts the player's focus towards goals and optimization is defining itself by those things.

If dilation defines experience then it plays that same defining role in art.

In Handmade Pixels Juul writes that certain theorists worry goals and optimization "shift the player's focus away" from other things and I argue this is explicitly a concern about dilation.

~ Handmade Pixels, "dual worries" about goals and optimization in games

The more specific problem is that of artwork rather than all experience.
I will focus there.

A decision "is" or defines its game equal to the decision's dilation.

An experience or subexperience "is" to a degree that equals its dilation.

I am willing to accept this not as a threshold but some other nearly mathematical trick.