Maybe it's because I've never held the Clone Wars cartoon in that high regard. It's fun, but much of the show is pretty disposable.
I just found the whole chip concept to be lazy, but they wrote themselves into a corner when they made the clones super likable.
Part of the goal with The Clone Wars was to "Fix" the prequel's problems and find good solutions to all of Lucas' dead ends. That includes making sense of Order 66 and the Clones, but also making Anakin an actually likable and heroic character, really fleshing out Obi-Wan and Anakin's friendship (which the movies don't really adequately show), making Anakin's fall to the dark side more clear and tragic, fleshing out the Jedi Order's stupidity, arrogance, and incompetence to allow the entire purge to happen in the first place, deepening Obi-Wan's character, and many other things. To say nothing of the actual cool additions to the mythology that have nothing to do with salvaging the prequels, like Mortis, the Nightsisters, Cad Bane, Hondo, Mandalore, etc.
The entire show is definitely not disposable in any way, and I'd go as far as to argue it ultimately contains the best material in the entire franchise.
The Clones, ultimately, are made better by being likable real characters who we come to grow and like, who the Jedi come to grow and like. We were robbed of the finale (though we're finally getting it in a few months), but even without seeing the tragedy play out, that entire scenario is so inherently rich storytelling. It's just about the furthest thing from lazy.
You're allowed not to like it for whatever arbitrary reason, but I think dismissing it the way you are is the actual laziness.