I just started DW2 and I'm already disillusioned with it. Exploration was safe enough when I couldn't fit an AFMU on my 14.2ly jump range ship that wasn't within 2k jumps of any way to repair or rearm, and the only way to refuel was with my own scoop.
Now I've got a ship that can fix itself, rearm itself, and has no limit to it's endurance other than the integrity provided by an armored/double braced PP. Civilization has spread to the extent that I have to be on the far side of the galaxy to ever be more than 10k from a large landing pad. I could probably be dropped off anywhere in the galaxy with any of my fuel scoop equipped ships and make it safely back with no canopy, just set course for the nearest inhabited system and synthesize life support the whole trip!
Unless I deliberately fly a lemon or make a comical string of mistakes, there is no danger, and recklessness is barely ever punished.