Yeah, echo that and Black Pedro’s post above.
Not intending to push one of my own posts, because what I write isn’t all that particularly interesting, however for this issue of whether bumping is really a discouragement for new players, it’s only really effective against the larger ships that aren’t really flown by new players. The analysis below last year looked at 2 years of Freighter/Bowhead/Orca ganking and found that it’s mostly vets that fly these ships:
New players are not really affected by bumping.