I was wondering when someone would pull out the "But I paid for the game!" argument.
Let me break some bad news to you.
Paying for the game does not entitle you to all the rewards. It entitles you to compete for them and earn them, but you play by the same rules as everyone else, a level playing field. You are not special, and you don't get a crutch for choosing to play in Solo.
I paid for ESO. There is a mount in ESO, and mounts are, along with skins, in ESO, the ultimate prestige symbol, that so far, literally nobody on the entire planet has unlocked. Not one person. It is locked behind the hardest content in the game. It stands to reason that within the lifespan of ESO, only 1% of ESO players, if that, will ever get to use this mount. Yes, there is a skill requirement to use this particular mount, and if you're not good enough, you don't get to have it, despite "paying for it" by your logic. (The mount's data is in the Elsweyr expansion, a paid expansion.) But you don't see me, or most of the community there, demanding we get the reward even though we fail to meet its requirements. We acknowledge the basic game design principle that some rewards have to be reserved for more skilled players, otherwise there is no endgame: Endgame is essential to a game's longevity. And I'm guessing you hope to play ED for many more years, yes?
This is an online game, one with progression no less. That means you have to work for the rewards, and generally speaking, the "top tier" rewards are harder to earn and maintain. (In most MMOs maintaining gear is a matter of keeping up with the meta)
And you are not being punished. You have nothing taken away from you, by not having a carrier. You cannot lose what you never had. Or is the game unplayable for you right now, because you don't have a carrier, hmm? I don't have a carrier, and I'm playing the game just fine. When carriers arrive, my gameplay won't be altered by not having one. I can still land at public stations, I can still sell any cargo I find, I can still shoot at any ship I see, I can still mine any rock, I can still go in any system I have a permit for.
This frankly sounds more like you just want everything because you (wrongly) think paying for an online game means you are entitled to all its rewards even if you don't meet the GM-determined rules & requirements. As I keep saying, ED is not special. It is no different to any other online game, and thus, is subject to the same basic rules of game design.