Did you see there’s a section in the post about negative value? It does discuss the first point you raised, that our intuitions about variety suffering aren’t as clear-cut, and that it’s not so obvious how we’d ideally handle these cases:
I at least personally get the intuition that a variety of bads makes an outcome worse. [...] My intuition is that Diverse Hell is worse than Uniform Hell, but I accept that the intuition here is less clear than it is in the positive case.
Did you see there’s a section in the post about negative value? It does discuss the first point you raised, that our intuitions about variety suffering aren’t as clear-cut, and that it’s not so obvious how we’d ideally handle these cases: