Also this reminds me of another critical failing of making Trek prequels: you squander any kind of spinoff or expanded universe capability.
When I was a kid it seemed like Trek really could go on forever. They had the perfect formula: each new "generation" has its own "look" and political situation, and within that generation, since space is so fucking big, you could literally have a dozen Trek shows taking place simultaneously in-canon and have none of them crossover, and it would still not break the suspension of disbelief nearly as bad as "Why doesn't Ant-Man just call in the Avengers?"
But then when you *want* them to crossover, they're literally a warp away from each other.
And then when a generation gets a bit tired, you jump forward 100+ years and start again.
The one-two-three prequel punch of Enterprise-Star Trek '09-Discovery really killed a lot of enthusiasm I had for the franchise, and now I think I've been able to articulate partly why... Trek is about looking forward, not back.