Skills is one thing. Passively letting standings go up without bribery or doing something good? No.
You blew up some of amarrs false prophets and now you have bad standings and they hate you. They arent just gonna over time forgive you without you doing something for them.
Having a choice between training the skill points passively or raising standings passively is not a bad idea. If it was you would just ignore me and not quote me out of context and so on
If you choose to raise a standing instead of training a skill that is not lazy its a compromise.
Some will prefer to keep training skills while they raise standings the old way. Some will prefer pausing their skill training and raise the standings faster instead. And some will think its a stupid idea without giving a good reason why.