All games take effort to play. These type of f2p games take effort to finish your quests every day (or 3 days). Sometimes I do that even when I don't feel like playing. When I don't feel like it and then don't complete them, that's what I am referring to as being lazy.
Yeah, most of this is just that generic F2P pain. You can make progress without paying, but you have to log in and do your daily grind. HS's actually a little better than some others since you can at least stack 3 quests. And it's possible to like a game but not really be in the mood for it that day, or even a few days. You can burn out temporarily on a good game. But F2P games are designed to try to make you play anyway because they want it to be a habit.