>What's wrong with the word amazed?
Amazement (dopamine rushes) confuses us.
Biologically, we respond to amazement as part of the learning process. But all too often, we receive these dopamine rushes simply as a consequence of the amount of resources and effort someone (or a group) puts into something.
e.g. You can go to Las Vegas, see thousands of people running around topless in gorgeous outfits and be amazed, yet what's the actual value to you?
I see this ALL too often in art. People get "amazed" by things that require a great deal of effort/resources (look how many transistors in this CPU!), but this temporary narcosis blinds us to evaluating /whether it's a good idea/. So many art projects are simply the result of an ordinary person commanding extraordinary resources from a corporate entity to construct a large number of instances of a single, mundane object or a single, large-scale version of the object. In these cases, the art is not in the sculpture, but in the conning to get the resources. I see budding artists respond to this amazement and trying to get huge funding.
Internet bloggers (Cory Doctorow comes to mind) abuse the word "amaze" all the time. I just checked boingboing.net right now and saw amazing used to describe wallpaper (no dude, this is /natural history/ wallpaper).