I didn't care if the Enterprise showed on the series. I like the show for itself.
What we did get though irked me. The pylons and feel of the ship were incongruous with "The Cage." We could chalk it up to refits, but why? Why from JJ-verse to "The Cage" to this to "Where No Man Has Gone Before"?
If anything, this further backs my suspicion that maybe something massive is going to happen later to change the history of this Prime Universe to look like what we knew it to be previously. Maybe a massive "discovery" that the way it was supposed to play out is different, or that required this Prime Universe to be altered to the Prime we knew.
Again, also good. Just someone fix those pylons, yeah? And what will Pike be wearing over there? Beige or blue?