I don't understand...

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.... Refusing to play better when you have the ability to do so is lazy....

How many players are always playing to their max all the time? That is just way to stressful. If I wanted to do that and for for max APM or something I'd be playing SC2 or SC/BW where maxing it out means you actually have a shot a beating the other guy or the other team. But that is a high stress game and your hands are shaking afterwards.

It is not being lazy to take a good enough relaxed approach to this. Many players just want to do that. For example:

This is my first MMO and I really like it but I am so confused so if I suck now and suck at level 50 it not for lack of effort but people taking a fun game world and trying to make it so serious just turns me off to the whole thing, the real world is serious but can l please just have some stress free fun away from that

We all have an infinite capacity to learn...

That is hyperbole and as much as I wish it were so. People got limited capacity not least of which their time is limited and their lifespans are limited, the number of braincells are limited. It is very much finite and not infinite. I am happy you have such an hopeful attitude about learning, but fact remains very few people are even able to max the limited brain capacity they got.

Additionally, people should not have to be subjected to unwarranted and unwanted advice. Sure you are well meaning, but just try to tell a new parent how to raise their kid especially coming from the mother-in-law. That is itching for a fight. Good luck with that. It is OK if things happen at a more relaxed pace. It is sooner or later, not just sooner.

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Your macro comment was also very misinformed and confusing. Macros don't play the game for you and I don't know where you got that from...

Macros is first step to automation and taken to an extreme it is a bot. I do software for a living and if I wanted to I can code up a bot to play for me and it would have perfect optimized rotations. The battles are a scripted and the solutions are finite so all you need to account for it the time delays and latency issues. That would be perfectly optimzied and perfectly no fun. So what is optimization to one is lazy to another because it is not optimized enough. So lazy is very subjective. Which gets back to the OPs original question why doesn't everyone care about their performance?

To which I say they do, but not to the extreme level the elitist demand or what he demands. To each their own. As long as they are not trolls, happy gaming, ok? Play for fun, not to cause stress.