Adjective for acknowleging a problem with no intent to solve it, and posing that mere acknowlegement/self awareness is good enough?

An example of what I'm referring to would be a scene in Deadpool 2, where, to be "meta," Deadpool says "that's just lazy writing." I didn't find it funny, because the plot point he was referring to was genuinely lazily written. The writer thought acknowledging their laziness without making effort to be genuinely clever, was clever. It's a very smug way people attempt to avoid criticism, I suppose. Everyone does it, consciously or not, out of insecurity or for humorous intent. The mentality of "I know the issue exists, but because I don't want to/know how to fix it, I'll just pretend acknowledging it is good enough."

Example sentence: "The insecure writer desperately attempted to avoid criticism for the flaws he was aware of by _______, rather than putting effort into fixing them."

Lampshading?

Lampshading is the writers' trick of dealing with any element of the story that threatens the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief, whether a very implausible plot development, or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on.