Are the people demanding mini-jumps because SC is "boring" the same ones who ignore USS because its too much effort to investigate them?
I don't think so. SC is boring, a constant drone coupled with thumps and bangs from the bulkheads moving and that's IT. If you're going a long distance, you won't be interdicted until you start to slow down because nobody can get close enough until then. So every SC trip will take as long as it takes without incident. So why not give us a way to speed things up if we want it? Paying big money for it is fine, having it in a slot is fine, just allow us to have the opportunity to reduce our time spent staring at a screenful of stars while doing nothing.
How many combat ships use every slot and have no cargo slots? Why can't on of those slots be used to give them an advantage over other players they want to interdict? that player is going from sun to station X in SC, you can MW to the sun closest to that station and intercept far sooner than if you tried chasing them.