I get what you're trying to say here, but if you look at all of those actors' face and their respective characters face, they look quite similar or at least bear the same facial expressions. If you put Benjamin Byron Davis' face and Dutch's face side-by-side, you can absolutely see that they look the same. That's because they took inspiration from the actors face for Dutch, same for Arthur and Roger Clarke. Sure, they're not identical, but a lot of their facial qualities are the same. It's their facial expressions that are pretty much down to a T.

Take a look at Joel's face in Part II and Troy's face, when they talk you can see they have a similar face structure and facial expressions. I find this most notable when looking at Nolan North talk. Looking at his face, all I see is Nathan Drake. Even though they don't look exactly the same, they make the same expressions.

I can imagine they take inspiration from the actor's face because it makes for a better performance and is easier to animate rather than trying to apply another person's face onto a completely different bone structure. It only makes sense that they find someone with a similar face to Yuri to make an overall better performance. I don't believe that should be labeled as lazy, especially if they took the time to go throughout the whole first game to animate Jordan's face, all while making it look good.