I watched a couple episodes and they took the parts I liked the least about Discovery and made a whole show about them.

I concluded it’s not really made for me so I’m rewatching Lower Decks

With the exception of the Section 31 movie, everything they’ve made has been better than Discovery.

Academy is certainly different but I think it stands well on its own merits, including good character work, respectful use of existing canon, and a strong emotional core.

Academy has the best elements of every single series to date.

It’s not perfect—nothing is—but it’s impressively good and enjoyable. Yes, there are some quieter or seemingly "boring" moments from time to time, but these are usually when you need to pay attention, as they pay off big time soon after.

That being said, —and this isn’t necessarily aimed towards you personally— if you’re the kind to snub an entire series barely 5 min into it after mindlessly watching while doomscrolling, then repeatedly trashing it online to justify your lack of interest, then, no, it will not satisfy you, just like nothing else will.

Apparently it continues the story of Discovery so a lot of people don’t like it for that reason.

It is much better then Discovery, but has to work in the universe discovery created. I like it more than Picard. More or less on the same level as SNW in terms of quality. Episode 2 and 3 were bad to me, but all other episodes after that were progressively more enjoyable to very good. Episode 6 makes a boring looking antagonist better to the point I would argue it is the best we got after ENT.