If someone were to look at my spreadsheet and the frequency at which I relapse (once every 3-5 days), or from their pov, "just indulge in pornography", they probably wouldn't consider me an addict in the functional sense (or perhaps they would, I don't have a good intuition for how the average person perceives this) and they would perhaps be correct. But for me, considering this state to be acceptable and normalizing it is always the first step on the slippery slope back to all-consuming degeneracy. In the absence of a constant and unyielding (perhaps pathological) antagonism of these tendencies, the mind slowly reaches for insidious, lethargic comfort. To be sure, every individual step I would take from that complacent frame of mind would be furnished with an appropriate and convincing rationalisation, but the sum of these actions would still result in me curled up in a ball, crying over the dysfunction in my life a few weeks later. I assume that is sufficient justification for why such a mindset seems necessary to me.
Now, presuming such a mindset to indeed be necessary, where does that leave us?
If life-long, uninterrupted freedom turns out to be a quixotic and unachievable desire (as it might well be, considering how I've been using it for 10 years (I'm 21 now) and all the failed attempts to quit in the past), the prospect of sincerely possessing the absolutist mindset (which smuggles in the assumption of eventual freedom) that we've shown to be necessary to maintain even a semblance of balance, simultaneously with the pragmatism (forcefully impressed upon me through experience) which acknowledges the possibility of inescapability is a bit depressing.
Perhaps there will be a technological/medical solution in the future.