the difference is: Humans are not a fictional species. Klingons are. And personally I prefer innovation over stagnation and good, alien looking designs for...well aliens instead of a couple of foreheadbumps and outdated make up choices.
so by your logic there should be no iconic aliens, everyone needsto just switch every time some asshole producer comes along. So youd be fine with Vulcan that are blue-skinned, with four eyes, and three Tails coming out of their ass because that's different. I can't wait to see a Gorn but it's actually a mammal with fur, or bajorans that are all cyclops.
odd that a non-existing federation has an impressive high-tech HQ base, several massive starships, a flying forest, and 38 member worlds
the real the real Federation has a lot more than 38 fucking worlds, it also has ships whose engines are powered by dilithium. It also doesn't have random mercenary assholes tell people that they're gone because they're too massive for anyone to deny they exist, they're the main power in the alpha quadrant.
So yeah, like was plainly stated in the first episode of this rancid STD, the Federation was destroyed. That's why the moron who meets Burnham says it's been gone since before he was born. He is a moron, but if the Federation existed it would be literally impossible to not notice it because you'd probably be a part of it if you lived in the alpha quadrant.
But in actual Star Trek also has dilthium that doesn't magically stopped working, along with klingons, andorians, onions and tellarites that don't look like absolute shitthen . in the end this STD is no more canon then the Abrams movies, the only difference being that the Abrams movies didn't pretend that they weren't to reboot. Also, the reboot movies kicked kurtzman off and actually made a good movie, so maybe when this asshole leaves Star Trek TV we'll get a good series from the STD universe, although i doubt it..
If it wasn't for Picard and Lower Decks, this would be the worst period in the franchises history, and STD is definitely the worst thing to ever have the Star Trek name