I have a love-hate relation with the Picard series. I love several things about it (the fact that it finally moves forward instead of rewritting the old history, the new ships, the Romulans etc.) But in the mean time I loathe that this is clearly a series made by old people for old people. Because according to Picard the future sucks. For everybody. It sucks for the Rommies, for Picard, for all of his friends. It's sucks for the Federation, it sucks for democracy (not to mention the totally unnecessary but apparently mandatory LMBTQ+ subplot).
I get it, it's hard to remain joyful and happy if you're getting old, but I feel like the series kills everything that made Star Trek lovable. That it was a bright and fun show full of lovable and HAPPY people. Heck, even the villains like Dukat, Weyoun, even the frikkin Borg Queen had their happy moments!
The Federation and Starfleet, once a paragon of high principles is now a cruel and amoral organization. Everyone's past is full of tragedies and they all became bitter old men, starting from Picard thorugh Riker to Seven. Nobody is happy in the Picardverse, and after sharing so many laughter and joy aboard the Enterprise, on DS9 and Voyager, this is really depressing. It's difficult to say, but currently I prefer the future of the galaxy pictured in STO over Picard....