For starters, there are forced carries over PLAYABLE areas [a bunker, playable rough, native areas that provide some chance of recovery] vs. forced carries over NON PLAYABLE areas [water, lost ball rough, etc.]. Obviously, the necessity of minimizing or eliminating the situation for less able golfers is much stronger if it's "make the carry, or don't finish the hole".
Mrs. Dye's explanation of why there shouldn't be a forced carry from the fairway was pretty simple. Take a player like my mom, who could only carry it maybe 75 yards when she stopped playing golf. If you've got a 30-yard forced carry over water, and she's more than 50 yards away from it, she will have to hit a 30- to 50-yard layup shot, and THEN, HOPE to make the carry with her next shot. Would any sane person want to play a hole like that?
A carry over a bunker from the tee is another thing entirely. I don't mind if there are one or two holes where the carry is significantly longer than some golfers can expect to make, as long as they can get their next shot onto the fairway if they fall short.