After thinking on it, I think the root cause here isn’t laziness, but a deep desire to believe that software development is ~ s p e c i a l ~ somehow, that they’re ~ a r t i s t s ~ with a mystical ineffable process.
(Never mind that many of these same people insist on calling themselves engineers…)
This is of course bullshit. Sure, sometimes it’s creative but FAR more often it’s like factory work. If it was art, how come spicy autocomplete is so good at it?