WIY: Because that’s not considered “laxness”. Your cause and effect is backwards. Mechitzah, for example, is an absolute Chiyuv. If someone doesn’t have that, they’re K’negged the Din. The only imperative for wearing a hat is that society has determined that it’s not appropriate to Daven without one. But if you’re in a society that never made that determination and/or has changed their norms from that determination, then the Halachic imperative to wear a hat (read: dress appropriately for Davening) never existed.
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