Star treks tech has always been an important part of the show. Look at tng. The Enterprise itself looked impressive per the tech but it didnt look non functional.
The new shows we get air touch screens. They didnt even come up with that. Its been used limited in Berman trek for things like graphics st conference tables but what they are using in Kurtzman trek is what we see in marvel movies. The air touch screens. Not even practical when walking an alien world.
If they wanted to go ahead 800 years they needed way a more startling advancement. Which of course would have been starships themselves. STD had the discovery. A much more advanced propulsion system. By the 32nd century we should have seen an equivalent or something different but better. But yet when discovery got there we find out that 750 years after discovery they were still relying on dilithium for the warp drive to keep the matter and anti matter flow separated. They had nothing to compare to discovery. Cochranes warp drive didnt have dilithium. Though his drive was dangerous he still came up with a way to make it work for a few minutes using primitive tech he had in the 21st century. . 32nd century tech should have found a solution. Its gross incompetence really. People even started to starve after the burn. It makes absolutely no sense.
