The nice thing here is that what he's saying has been corroborated by Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman - it feels much more like his side of the story, rather than the usual RTD bluster and bombast.

As for SNW...I'm sure I could write essays about it, but this is hardly the right community (maybe we should set something up for Star Trek...?). I think the bottom line is that I'm glad they've been pushing the boundaries of what people expect in the 2020s, and have embraced the chaotic TOS Season 3 energy. I also have a weird appreciation for the fact that they've been so episodic, it may have given the "I want episodic Trek" crowd some things to reconsider.

But it is not my favourite series of the current era, and has been pretty squarely up the middle for me. I suspect its overall reception will be revised upward over time, as tends to happen.