I understand you Ziffer, and at the same time, I partially disagree.
When I was PUAing a lot (which I'll start to pick up again next week since I'm single again), I became indestructible by rejection. I'd hard next any girl who rejected me.
However, once I was in the conversation, more so in the pick up moment, I would use PUA techniques for kino escalation, IOIs, SOI and some teasing, but never routines: I'm a natural gamer and at the same time, what I said was genuine, and it was my personality. PUAing, being alpha, being very social became me. I didn't have a PUA hat on, I was PUAing all the time: always on the look and thinking of how I could approach that girl or this one is that context.
What I'm saying is that you shouldn't have a PUA hat on, you should transcend with PUAing, become one. That won't change your personality, it will barely alter it: you're still the same person, you simply more social and no longer an average frustrated chimp (AFC) who doesn't know how to approach.
Back to my evolution, when I was PUAing a lot, I hooked up with that one girl once. We exchanged numbers, and a month or so later, hooked up again. We'd hook up every know and then, and I would still PU other girls. Until I came the realization that I genuinely like that girl I got used to hooking up with, and we then got into an exclusive relationship for a year and a half.
She liked me for how I picked her up, and how we made up. And for another year and a half, she loved me for everything, even though I wasn't picking her up anymore, I teased her, seduced her, etc. but most of the time I was showing my original (pre-PUA) personality.
To conclude, I'd say that you might think you should distinguish PUAing and "normal AFC life", but in the long run, you might become schizophrenic if you separate both.
Also, you might desensitize yourself towards other girls, but the one day you find one you really like, you'll know it, and she will too.
