There are some tricks to making it quite tame in Solo, if you're trying to press the easy button.
Also if it's a pirate hunting mission and you manage to find and interdict the target in supercruise the cops will eventually show up (unless it's an anarchy system) unlike in the actual mission instance which has the security response jammed. This has been more of an hindrance to me if they killsteal the main target while I'm still dealing with the escorts which results in the mission failing.