It's an NPC-base commodity, availably 24/7
It can be aquired as a single player without any interaction.
Your interaction pattern is NPC-base, F3, Cruise, tense 2 minutes to docking point, NPC-base.
And you want it to pay quite a bit more than ore where you have to cooperate, wait for a miner, pay the miner, etc?
It has also been said hundreds of times that smuggling is not that conducive to gameplay (bc you have to avoid interaction).
Really? Sorry, if you promote smuggling, you promote an aspect that adds little to nothing to the game.