i would say that whether it's a negative trait depends on framing. like if you said you were going to cut a log using a whack-ass old hand saw V a chainsaw, you would not be framed as a lazy bum for using a chainsaw, you would be seen as a logical person.

Goggins might choose the handsaw, but he would have his own goal for doing it. he'd be making a whole video about it where he gets rhabdo while doing a 100-hour sawathon and calling people chainsaw pussy cucks.

regardless, i think searching for the path of least resistance isn't actually lazy, it's just human nature.

imo, if you are taking action and doing something , regardless of optimal or not, by default you are (generally) not lazy