Oh, the fuzzies. The warm, comforting fuzzies.
Come on, who else just smiled a little at the joy of seeing these characters brought back to life?
Plus, we've got Seven and Raffi sticking around too.
Disclaimer: This isn't me trying to kill off anyone's joy, just musing on my own response a bit.
With the info we currently have and with the shortcomings of the prior PIC seasons, this isn't really shaping up to be comfort viewing for me so much as it is low-stakes viewing. So far as I'm concerned, the TNG crew got a proper send-off a couple decades ago with "All Good Things..." Even taking in how much I love First Contact, the movies feel
lagniappe to me, a mostly-appreciated extra rather than solid canon. The TNG crew were my childhood Trek and formative viewing, but it's also the Trek for which the most time has passed since I was introduced and where I've consumed the most secondary and tertiary canon. So the emotional responses aren't as fresh or intense, and it's the one where I've seen the most reinterpretations of this crew via comics, novels, and fanworks since the show ended. So additional works, even with the stamp of official canon on them, don't feel more important, or more impactful, they just feel like more. (Not by itself a bad thing, of course - I wouldn't be watching PIC if "more" wasn't appealing.) And adding how heavy-handed PIC has been with some of the nostalgia aspects and how muddled aspects of last season's time-travel got, I'm not precisely excited for what Matalas has in store.
But thing is, the toned down emotional investment also means there's not a whole lot this season can do to actually upset me.* These characters have the weight of enough good writing and characterization behind them that even if the creatives do flub the (actually, really, truly final, we swear!

) send off, I don't feel like it'll be all that damaging to the characters, whereas the aspect of PIC S1 and especially S2 that most got under my skin was how careless the scripts were with characters who had so little development and were getting a pretty rough first go of things because the creatives seemed to value the weight of nostalgia over everything else. But now they're mostly out of the line of fire, so to speak. So I feel like I'll be able to either have a relaxed revisit with S3, or at least some good old fashioned "it's so bad it's good" MST3K action. And, you know, we can always get some info between now and next year that'll get me genuinely, prick-eared, tail-wagging excited, so... win-win?
*(ETA: Unless they pull another Hugh, but I genuinely don't think Matalas plans to waste that returning character he didn't think he'd be able to snag.)