FWIW I could never see FF as lazy. We are doing one bottle a day this time and the amount of stress and worry and extra work and planning this has attached to it is ridiculous (I let DH worry about it officially...) much much easier to breastfeed beyond the first getting it established bit, no worries about timing (has this milk been out too long?), temperature, cleanliness, no "Did I put four scoops or five?", no worries about preparing a feed far enough in advance for it to suit the baby but soon enough to minimise bacterial growth, or thinking what to do when you go out. No brand comparisons or trying to work out WTF is the difference between different varieties, does this one have palm oil, does that packaging use excess plastic, if my normal variety is unavailable, is it best to switch brands or varieties? etc.
I do sometimes find it sad when a mum says she can't BF if I think it's been a painful journey for her but I don't ever think it's her fault for "not trying hard enough" or not knowing where the support is, I think it's a disgrace that the front line support is crap and patchy and the better support is often buried, not only being difficult to find, but also being entrenched often in ideology that not every new mother shares. You shouldn't have to be an attachment or "crunchy" parent to want to access BF advice and I don't think it's helpful that to access good advice people often have to wade through anti-formula rhetoric.
OTOH it makes me feel frustrated to see BF advice being misrepresented online, the most common I see which winds me up is "If it hurts you're doing it wrong" - no no no! It's not about doing it wrong vs doing it right, it's a process that there can be many factors to. It's about as accurate as saying to someone who is driving a car "If it makes a funny noise, you're driving it wrong." Well, maybe, but the important thing is to take the car to a garage ASAP to get it checked out, not to immediately jump to "I'm at fault".
If BF is painful it might be that a small adjustment will fix it, in other cases it's a more deep seated issue and yes there are some kinds of pain which are just part of the normal getting used to the process for some people, but unless you get seen you won't know which one it is, and while some will get better on its own, some causes of painful feeding will get worse and cause more issues the longer you leave them.
It's not that BF itself requires dedication and perseverance, BF requires experienced support, so if you're lucky enough to have that around you already it is likely to go smoothly, if not you'll probably have to seek it out - now that is the part which requires dedication and perseverance and that makes me sad. Not that FF mums "aren't dedicated" but that looking for the basic needed support requires dedication. It shouldn't be like that. Most other countries seem to have this sorted.