"Suffering" is an attempt to transpose the biological reality of pain onto the existential phenomenology.
The germ moves away from painful salt and towards the pleasurable sugar.
Significance of "suffering" in your model inevitably brings you to some form of hedonism. Even Schopenhauer ended up making a masochist-in-denial hedonist out of himself.
Ah, the social conditioning of "suffering" - truly the saccharine of "the devil you know."

However, even Jung's transcendent function proved that you don't need any dichotomies for propulsion.
Imagine using it to be a germ... harder. Not beyond good and evil for sure.