To what extent are you even "playing the game" while jumping a Carrier anyhow?
We fly our ships. We don't fly our Carriers, our crew does that.
The fact that a Carrier jump can happen even when we are no longer logged on should be a clue that it isn't considered core gameplay. At least the user of a Carrier script is logged on throughout, and with ED running in the foreground (unlike me, when I'm working from home with ED running in the background and flipping to it once every 20 minutes).
But it would be better if Frontier integrated this into the game, it is an often-requested feature. That would end all arguments about "unfairness".
Mass-haulage botting is obviously in a different league entirely.