Poor game design? Breaks immersion? How can it be either to allow the player the freedom to do both smart AND dumb things?
This.
OP wants FD support to break immersion to get him out of a hole he dug himself into. Claims allowing him to jump into an unsurvivable situation in the first place is an "immersion breaker"... Lolwut?
Fly into a rock at high speed? Boom. You die.
Boost in through the letterbox without enough decel to avoid the pickle forks at the back of the docking bay? Boom. You die.
Shoot the station? Boom. You die.
Muff your approach to a high-G landing? Boom. You die.
Get too close and e-dropped into a neutron stars gravity well? Boom. You die.
Jump into a region you can't jump out of?
You die.
There are literally dozens of ways you can put yourself into situations you simply cannot get out if in ED.
And if you do any of them to yourself, your shiny spacefaring tuchas is TOAST.
And you know what, OP? THIS IS IMMERSION.