The mental allergy to mechanical views on psychology

 Ego depletion, moment-to-moment happiness, sleep food, and exercise to improve our mental states. 

The common theme for all those is a technical/mechanical feeling analysis.
This type of analysis does not sit well with many. 

Ego Depletion has been criticized from various fronts. Theoretical issues, argued inability to replicate, and so on. 

But I am asking. Is it all about rational critique? Or is there a deeper motif here. 

Allergy to a mechanical view I suspect is central to the venom hurled towards the theory. 

Regardless of the substance of the criticisms, this deeper dislike to the mechanical view looms large over many of the critiques. Sometimes, it is said explicitly, even. 


Moment to moment happiness. What Daniel Kahneman calls "objective happiness". This is the experience of now over time. count the experiences of every moment over one's day and here is your "experienced happiness". 

Again, people simply do not like the theory. Which is why you do not hear much about it. Even though happiness researchers agree that this is an important facet and perspective about happiness. 


Here is another example of a mechanical analysis. 
Should one "solve" his feelings about past events?
And why?

a mechanical view is "you will end up recalling those events, so rather have them solved"
Note that nothing here is about "having your story solved" and "getting over it"

Rather, a mechanical calculation that you will end up encountering those thoughts by the natural flow of events in the future. So you are better off having those solved, rather than unsolved, which will cause fresh agony every new time you happened to memorize the events. (Meanings of Life book by Roy Baumeister)

At times, mechanical perspectives are true, or useful, or both. 

But I think humans are naturally not inclined to see things with those glasses. Moreover, I think humans are actively reluctant to accept those explanations, even when they are true and do have good evidence. 

This tendency is also influencing academics. Even when the thought process is supposed to be objective and facts-based, the natural human weaknesses are too strong to counter