My confusion is more centered around drinking to a regrettable point, where you're feeling terrible the next day or even during. I've been there myself in the past, but it was 100% social lubricant and hoping that by getting drunker I'd reach that jolliness people associate with it. Never worked out that way and now I hardly drink. I might have a beer by myself while engaging in activities but I literally never have drank so much alone that I pay for it later.
That I don't understand whatsoever, pure wastedness just isn't fun alone, and rarely fun with others. Your motor functions are literally compromised so you really can't do anything fun except be drunk. Maybe be one of those savants who's suddenly awesome at beer pong, as if that game didn't lose its luster 5000 parties ago. On top of the hangover, which is harder to deal with the older you get.
Imo, I guess. To each their own etc.