Funny, I liked the later seasons of Discovery much more when it grew its beard grew its dreadlocks.

Picard has it's moments but a ton of fan service that wouldn't work for non-Trekkie's I would assume but maybe that's why you didn't care about it and wasn't bothered. It's "let's take the heroes of these series and let them fight against these villains from these series and the storyline from there". Maybe it works even better if you're new to all of them.

I wouldn't even say it's bad but all the other series are better, so have fun discovering the other series 😉