I mean all of that could have been covered with strange new worlds being its own thing. The timeline just made the technology they had really wierd and the klingon look could have been easily explained after voyager as them getting closer to their true look and the worf look being a halfway point. Also getting away from secret spock relatives would have been great.

Yeah, the strange new worlds spinoff of Discovery easily makes the show worth it to me.

Which makes me wonder how far they will go with the new casts of TOS characters. Kind of exciting