There are probably two main reasons why some people complain about the auto docking/auto take-off/auto-super cruise:
1. They believe people using it are bad at the game and enjoy belittling people.
2. They are heavily engaged in the background simulation and/or PowerPlay and realise that this just makes botting pretty much trivial and reduces BGS and PowerPlay down to who can afford the most accounts rather than who has the most player support and effective strategy.
I am in the 2nd category.
Some of us looked at the automation features announced and concluded that FDev left out two things from their announcements:
1. Removed PowerPlay
2. Removed the Background Simulation
Before this announcement we already saw botting wreak havoc in PowerPlay and BGS, but at least it was limited to people who were willing to be in massive breach of the ToS (not that this had any effect whatsoever). Now ... now you aren't even going to be doing that.
Now you can just run four accounts simultaneously, wing up and have the other three follow you as you jump and head to your target. If you're doing BGS manipulation you don't need any kind of macro for it (buying/selling 792 tons takes all of 4 seconds), but if you're doing PowerPlay you sort of do to avoid going nuts buying and picking up 50 tons of cargo at a time across four cutters.
What this does is ruin two of the oldest and primary reasons for forming any kind of community in the game, as well as the two oldest actual competitive areas of the game, and it does it without any kind of attempt at rectifying or justifying it. Sure, PowerPlay has been kicked to the side, set on fire, thrown into a dumpster and then abandoned by FDev so far, and now, just to add insult to injury, they've decided to pipe their office toilets into the dumpster as well.
But the BGS? Why has that been thrown into the dumpster as well?
You could argue that it's to move the competition into the Squadron mechanics, but that doesn't work - all that does is show which Squadron has the better bots, and regardless of what people will say, this will inevitably be used as an excuse/accusation. "They only won because they were using bots!"
It's also going to have a massive impact on community goals that involve any kind of trading. It won't be long before the only way to get into the top spots will be to be a botter yourself, and since the trade CGs already tend to drain markets completely dry within a huge radius of the CG system, expect that to get even worse when botting becomes this easy.
This will kill BGS participation and will make it as pointless and abandoned as PowerPlay, and it will inevitably mess up certain types of community goals as players realise that the only way to compete is to bot.
So far I've watched Frontier attempt to drown PowerPlay in a heavily used porta potty, and now I'm watching them do it to the BGS and CGs as well. Makes me wonder what's next.