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AviraDeArah
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Depends; if someone has the attitude of not wanting to be bothered by mitzvos, then yes, they are less religious. It also depends on the issue; being maikil on talmud Torah, tznius, or other fundamentals, is usually indicative of a larger problem.

If you view your life as something you do for yourself, when you go to work, eat, have leisure time, and find yourself troubled by pesky halachos that get in the way of “your life” then you’re not very religious. A religious person views their life as avodas Hashem. As long as that’s your view, being meikil on various individual shailos doesn’t mean much.

And of course, you’re supposed to have a rov whose psakim you follow, so if you’re doing that, you’re definitely not “less religious”