Maybe I could've worded it better....
You could've but, in fairness, you started this thread in the SNW Forum, so you were writing to your audience.
Anyway, I've seen some people on this board say, "They should've come out with SNW first!" And this is my opening to say I disagree.
In the context of when DSC was first created, at the time it still looked like the Kelvin Films would continue. There were speed bumps, but
no one thought those movies would stall out so completely. So, when CBSAA was launching its first new Star Trek series, they wanted something that wouldn't be too similar to the Kelvin Films. Star Trek was already successful on Netflix, so CBSAA basically said, "We're making another spinoff!" And so many Trekkies were talking about how much they loved DS9 because it was dark and serialized. Then add into the mix CBS wanted to pride itself on being the Prime Timeline, yet they still wanted to ride off the wave of the Kelvin Films at the time... so, that means DSC was a dark, serialized series in the Prime Timeline, nominally in the TOS Era before they jumped into The Future, with the main character being a foster-sister of Spock's.
As far as PIC goes, some people on this board like to pretend otherwise but, for a large portion of the audience, the Star Trek they grew up with was TNG not TOS. The first thing a lot of people think of when they think of Star Trek is TNG not TOS. Almost all of my friends IRL who like Star Trek only like TNG. Back in the '90s, I'd run into several cases where there were non-fans in general (regardless of age) who didn't like TOS but did like TNG. As soon as you advertise something as a TOS Reboot, or a TOS Prequel, or TOS Anything, you've lost them.
Picard was made for those people, the TNG Fans who hadn't had anything thrown at them for
almost 20 years. No, "These Are the Voyages" doesn't count! How they felt about
Nemesis had faded away and they missed the 24th Century. Alex Kurtzman and Michael Chabon wanted to bring back Picard, but Patrick Stewart didn't want to do it unless it was different and he wasn't doing things he was doing before. Enter
Picard Season 1. Once Patrick Stewart warmed up to being back, then he was willing to do more with his fellow TNG cast and be fully back in that world. He had to get up to that point before they could do anything else. But once he was there, they finally had a chance to give TNG a better ending than
Nemesis. Enter Terry Matalas and
Picard Season 3. Think about it from the cast's point of view: Who wants
Nemesis to be their swan song?
With both of those shows, you get "We want dark and serialized!" and "We want to go past
Nemesis!" out of the way. Also, if not for DSC, fans would be a lot less forgiving of the visual changes SNW made. DSC went so far different from what people thought of as the TOS aesthetic that they were more willing now to accept SNW's look as a compromise.
Also, if not for DSC, there wouldn't be SNW. It doesn't look like a Pike series was Alex Kurtzman's first choice. It's what Akiva Goldsman pushed for, and he wouldn't have gotten the idea in his head if DSC wasn't initially set "10 years before TOS", which led to him thinking, "Where's Pike?" And it's the Pike introduced in DSC who fans wanted to get his own series. Without Anson Mount, and without DSC Season 2 to show him off, all Pike would be is The Captain Before Kirk. A father-figure to Kelvin Kirk, and a grumpy misogynist in "The Cage". Anson Mount really made Pike into his own, and made people want a series with him. And you have DSC to thank for getting the ball rolling.
