I assure you no game dev actually working on a major project is "lazy". You can't survive the industry if you aren't 100% passionate about it, because it's all the difficulty of software engineering for shittier pay and MUCH angrier customers who are willing to find you and call up your house with death threats over Call of Duty.
One of my past bosses worked on the original Far Cry. He told us about how development reached a point where many devs never went home in order to finish the game, and the sheer exhaustion destroyed their ability to even talk coherently in meetings. Then when my former boss went home after the game had released, some freak of a player discovered that he had been responsible for a particular feature that the gamer hated (unstated here since I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say what exactly), and the guy sent a long message about how they were going to find him and do things to his mother (you can imagine what they said for yourself).
That was the last straw and what led to my past boss leaving AAA game dev forever.
Nobody working there is lazy. Nobody working there might even be sane to be able to put up with abuse and garbage pay like that (and even worse) using the same skills that can get them hired in software with triple the pay instead.
When the game you were looking forward to sucks ass and barely runs it's not because the people behind it were fucking "lazy", it's because they haven't been home in months working to meet impossible deadlines set by management who know that no matter what, sales are generated by hype and brand recognition over actual quality anyway.
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