Excerpt from 'Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series'
The "weirdos" (which include Patrick Stewart and other alums) aren't objecting to the content but to the preachy, heavy-handed delivery. Roddenberry commented on the ridiculousness of racism with two characters hating each other for being the wrong color on the wrong side. The Picard s2 writers had characters walk around present-day LA saying things like, "There's so much the social injustice!" The complaint about modern Trek is that it tries too hard to be "woke" and not hard enough to be good science fiction.