I believe your assessment is spot-on.  I think that much of it comes from lower quality writing.  To me it feels simple, harpy and lazy.  I am not engaged or entertained but simply annoyed.   Apparently, I am not the audience they are writing for.

I always felt like the value of Sci-Fi was the philosophy discussion of what might be.

SFA ratings are way down. They've committed to a second season, but fans have been leaving in droves, per Neilson ratings. The show has its moments, but I agree with Rick's comments.

As for the general idea behind the post, I feel that TV, books, art, etc. all help us to sort out what are the foundational values to which we should adhere. No one TV show, or even one book like the Bible, is going to give you everything you need to find out what is truth, love, justice, fairness, kindness, integrity, etc. Hopefully all humans reach a common definition of these ideals, but lately Evil has been steering humanity to perverted definitions. This is our ongoing battle.

I've been giving Starfleet Academy a fair shot, but it's just not good. I think I've enjoyed one episode so far, and that's the one with the cadets that had to board that ship for training, and then they end up getting taken hostage. That one wasn't too bad, but all the rest of them have been like, I put it on in the background, and I doom scroll social media while I'm kind of paying attention to it in the background, just because the stories are not that good.