It's all a matter of degree.
What you have to understand about all these teachers who take the "don't work for it" approach is that they were extremely lucky to awaken.
It would be like me telling someone career advice of: don't work hard, when I was born to billionaire parents.
If not working worked then everyone would be awake. Yet no one is. Listening to a bunch of soft Neo-Advaita talk will not awaken almost anyone, just like how watching videos of billionaires swimming in pools of money will not make you rich.