Small publishers are resourceful. They learn to take what they've got and find creative ways to compensate for whatever they lack. Small publishers are natural entrepreneurs. If the time ever came that the press made enough money to live on and they could hire people to operate it, they'd get bored and do something else on the side. Probably start up another press.
Small publishers are anything but lazy.
They have a drive to keep busy, keep learning, meet deadlines, and create. They have a purpose. Small press is not competitive. Everyone has something unique to say, and their own way to say it. Small press is a way of life, not the means of making a living.