I see no problems with filing “actions chosen for instrumental reasons” under the category of “want” in this context. They could be consolidated with their goal, anyway—for time allocation purposes there is not much sense in separating “walking to the fridge and opening it” out of the general “get a beer”.
This becomes problematic when you try to distinguish an instrumental decision from its terminal valuation, for example “I don’t want to be commuting to work, but I choose to do so in order to get there.” (negative all-else-equal valuation, positive instrumental valuation).
I see no problems with filing “actions chosen for instrumental reasons” under the category of “want” in this context. They could be consolidated with their goal, anyway—for time allocation purposes there is not much sense in separating “walking to the fridge and opening it” out of the general “get a beer”.
This becomes problematic when you try to distinguish an instrumental decision from its terminal valuation, for example “I don’t want to be commuting to work, but I choose to do so in order to get there.” (negative all-else-equal valuation, positive instrumental valuation).
Again: in this context. Sometimes you need to decompose instrumentality from its terminal goal, sometimes you don’t need to.