Both seasons of Discovery and Picard had serious tonal problems and seemed to be uncertain what story they were telling or what the point of the show was. It really felt like shows designed by committee with lots of conflicting ideas loosely held together.
While I doubt all the producers are involved in the day-to-day (and it's common for one or two to just be in the background) the more there people involved the more likely you're going to get conflicting ideas.
Continuity is a tricky thing, because it tends to be something known by the biggest of fans. Learning and memorizing details of the show is how the engage in the franchise. And when you start ignoring continuity you're telling these fans that what they cared about didn't matter.
And while the show should be accessible to non-fans and not require a continuity degree from Stanford, if you're not making the show with the fans in mind, who are you making the show for?
No other show has the canon of Star Trek. Six series now and over a dozen movies. The fact it's only had one reboot, which was also off to the side, is rather impressive. There's nothing else like it in television. So ignoring it's continuity and treating the series like a reboot feels like it's doing a disservice to the series.
To me, doing a Star Trek show is like doing a show set in World War 2. There's a lot of facts and history. And you can fudge a few dates and have some small anachronisms and so long as most things feel right people will forgive details. You can easily make up battles. Have secret Nazi programs and factions. Have Hitler send troops to the Middle East to dig up Jewish artifacts. Show a particular model of tanks in battle a year or two early. Heck, you could have a Korean War fighter plane show up despite being built five years after the war ended and it would look close enough.
But when you go too far it breaks the immersion. If all of a sudden you have a Vietnam era fighter jet show up, people know it feels out of place.
And if you're not willing to do any research or fact check, then maybe you shouldn't take a job writing historical fiction.