I liked Picard, but I would generally say that the new Star Treks are struggling to deal with the move towards the serialized (right term?) format most new sci-fi has taken, having been traditionally an episodic franchise. I've been been doing a re-watch of SG1 lately and I think they got the balance absolutely spot on in that regard, even better than DS9. In a lot of ways it's harder to do the half episodic/half overarching plot thing since the writers strike because having a 20 episode series is more expensive, but I think to this point the new Star Treks have spent too much time on the plot and not enough time on the characters. My big criticism with Picard was I didn't particularly care about the characters enough. That can absolutely change just through more episodes/exposure, but a lot of them seem too one dimensional. For example, all of Seven of Nine's last 20 years are crammed into about 20 mins in one episode, so if you didn't have the Voyager stuff to fall back on you wouldn't really care about her.

TL;DR: less seasonal plot, more character stuff. Pls.