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satignant adj

Contraction from Latin "satur" (stuffed, full) and "ignavus" (lazy, cowardly, inactive).

The unwillingness of a person or entity to make an effort as a consequence of a (possibly overly) satisfied state.

Examples:

During a production planning meeting for an electronic device:

Engineer 1: They outright rejected our manufacturing inquiry, because our PCB had a dozen THT parts.
Engineer 2: That's a totally satignant shop, they only do what they can easily run through their pick'n'place.

During a joint US/Russian air meet, while watching an air display:

Young US pilot: Look at these huge turns, they're not pulling proper G-forces.
Young Russian pilot: Too many colonels. Is same in Russia. Become satignant.

Between two metalheads over an online article:

Metalhead 1: Metallica will only play eight shows this year!
Metalhead 2: Hardly news. They're that satignant since they sold out with the black album.

We came across the issue in a discussion about Apple claiming it couldn't get the right screws in the US, and I chimed in that I had problems finding a shop in Germany that could reasonably manufacture PCBs with vertically mounted axial through-hole components: It is a state of large parts of the western industry in general, where entrenched companies lose flexibility. But amazingly, there is no word to describe it. I used the word "complacent", knowing it was slightly off, being translated to German "selbstgefällig". Someone pointed that out, but I couldn't find a better word in the Thesaurus. German has another word, "saturiert", used mostly tongue-in-cheek to describe someone who "has made it" and has no further need to achieve anything. Still, while it indicates that those don't have to make efforts anymore, it doesn't imply that those would actually stop. Also, in English the transliterated word "saturated" does not have that meaning, but is rather technical. (English still lacks an exact equivalent, "satiated" would come very close, I guess, while "languorous" might be the impression in an overly satiated state).

So I had a look at the latin dictionary to see what word stems would fit, and assembled the most suitable ones to "satignant".

Enjoy your new ability to describe the decline of the western civilization in one word. :)

Oh... I'm not really proficient in eastern languages, but 飽鈍 (hōdon, bǎo dùn) might be a start for them (unless I overlooked some other way off meaning...).