Your points all make sense, from the prespective of a Star Trek fan. But remember the current show runners are NOT fans, must legaly make the show diffrent, but most of all are making THEIR Space Show(with a pointless Star Trek lable).
Yes.
''Cool and Awesome" Sci Fi is Star Wars, not Star Trek.
After the utter failure of Discovery....I'd love to see even an ''ok" Star Trek Show. A nice ''older Picard loosess his way and forgets who he is" and he has to ''rediscover himself". That would at least be a good Star Trek story: A POSTIVE message story. One about how you should not give up, and there is always hope. One about even the ''great" people like Picard stumble and fall.....it happens to everyone....but what makes people great is that they can get back up from that.
But not a screen full of CGI spam ''sci-fi action" like Star Wars......