Three things make characters in fiction likable: attractiveness, competence, and drive.
No clue what you're on about, lazy disasters make for phenomenal characters. And personally I'd rather have characters meet less conventional beauty standards.
As The immaculate has pointed out, you have just supported my point by expressing a personal attraction towards coupled with a liking of "lazy disasters" who "meet less conventional beauty standards". :-)
EDIT: It occurs to me that "likability" and "attractiveness" are too close to distinguish their meanings, so let me restate my thesis: To be interesting, a fictional character needs to have one or more of following qualities: attractiveness (or relatability), competence, and motivation. If a character is neither attractive (to the reader), not competent at what they do, nor motivated to do it, very few will want to read about them. (That a lot of readers find incompetent and unmotivated characters attractive or relatable implies something about the former, I suspect.)
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