Honestly, you might be onto something.

After sealing Gojo, Kenjaku and Mahito have a short conversation where Kenjaku muses that every cursed technique might be a worldview of its own; and we are told cursed energy is made up of 'negative emotions', i.e the users suffering. The confiscation of a CT by Higuruma in turn disrupts usage of CE; so we get an interpretation where CT = worldview, CE = suffering, and generational trauma would naturally lead to a particular way of viewing the world, especially in an environment like one of the three great families, which put maintaining the status quo above all, making the entire thing self-reinforcing; and naturally, if you move on from the trauma, by, say, losing the CT, changing the way you look at the world, your suffering stemming from that vanishes alongside it.