As a working adult with a hectic schedule I disagree, ED does not need to be turned into an instant gratification title (there are plenty of those already) and the longer travel times ARE avoidable to a very large degree anyway.
Very much this. I consider myself lucky if I can get in five hours in any particular week. Not only are longer travel times very much avoidable, but on those rare occasions where a Supercruise journey is longer than five minutes, I can use that time on the parts of the game that require me to be in the Galaxy Map, which under other circumstances I could only do while docked, my ship sitting there idle and unproductive.