1. Don't mistake a few loudmouths on the forum with 'the community'. Certain people also post with several alts to give the impression that a certain general opinion exists.

2. Don't mistake the relatively few people that post here with the playerbase. Only a tiny fraction posts on the forum and doesn't represent the opinion of the the whole playerbase.

You don't go 100% tunnel vision when jumping gates? Given how impossible it is to catch a shuttle warping to 0 in high sec and how the destination is all that is of concern. If you actually pay attention to the universe around you, well, you are a far better pilot then me.

Any trash talk you're getting about autopiloting is coming from one of two groups:

Either the group of folks that don't like ANYONE that plays EVE differently than they do and feel a need to try to get everyone to play their way, or the group that feels some sort of need to justify ganking your shuttle.

Neither group really knows wtf they're actually on about, so pay them no mind.

There're always exceptions. Thanks for calling me simple minded.

Because he's looking for a reaction from you, that's why he said what he said.

Look at this here thread, you reacted. He won.

They're mad because you reap rewards being afk while they stay all day long at their keyboard mostly doing nothing at all but waiting for a target. AP in >1M fits is perfectly fine. No one in his right mind wouldn't take the small risk of losing a couple of minutes, an empty shuttle and an empty pod just to do a 30 jumps trip like Home - Jita to buy the new ship he wants. Travelling isn't fun, loading screens are god awfully long for no reason, so any way to circumvent such a pointless time sink is fine. Since it makes haters mad you should keep doing it.

True, but complaining about it is equally pedantic. Not to mention, easily construed as attention seeking in and of itself.

If you really do have such contempt, just don't post about it.