>>536207716
What you described is the pleasure of pathetically low creatures. Even without transforming into a lich, wise wizards look upon such people as filth. The point of becoming a lich is to shed the weaknesses of the flesh—you no longer die of old age, nor are you burdened by the need to sleep or eat. This means you can devote more time to what truly matters: knowledge. For knowledge is everything, and the pursuit of all knowledge is the ultimate goal.
Let mindless, wretched barbarians concern themselves with enslaving emperors. Rational beings have no interest in this decay, which will inevitably be ground to dust by time.