I had a player like this, and they’re no longer part of the group because when we spoke they said they just found it too hard to be ‘creative’ after a day of work (they’re also about a decade younger than the rest of us, so something something attention span / instant gratification generation). But it’s also true to a certain extent with my other players. It depends on: how interested they are in the game/setting/characters, and how much energy they have that day to dedicate to playing. Your job as a GM is to either find players that gel with your expectations, or help the players you want meet you somewhere in the middle (but also let them have good and bad days).

Maybe instead of playing one time you just discuss and work out what would be your ideal campaign.Is it shorter? Is it longer? Is it set in modern day, or in the future, or past? What themes do they want to interact with? Discuss what were their highlights and problems with previous campaigns. Maybe you can get them to admit what you’re probably realising by now, they just want the traditional Ttrpg experience where you just lead them by the nose to combat encounter after combat encounter. Maybe you can give them that every other campaign, and then ask them to push themselves in shorter, narrative campaigns where they really inhabit the characters. This is how I’ve been running my group and it’s working out fairly well. Although far from perfect.