Do you agree with this observation? Would you agree that it's better to not increase your needs in first place?
It depends how financial strong wall you have built around you, that will determine if you will regret for increasing your needs or not op. If you are not wealthy yet, don't increase your needs because it will affect your health and other things when you don't have funds to purchase your needs that is making you healthy or looking good, but if you have different sources of income that is bring income to you everyday or weekly, it will help you not to regret or miss some of the needs you have purchased in the past because you have the funds to purchase the needs again.
You will know if you can already afford other things if you are accumulating extra funds. But as much as possible, you can also invest it to other assets so you can gain passive income out of it.