Spoilers Affliction/Divergence ignored by Discovery: Thoughts?

[F. King Daniel]

Again, no one - literally no one - said that DS9 and Voyager were so bad that people would look back and think or prefer to think that they took place in an alternate universe.

What's the difference between disliking a show and pretending it doesn't exist (/is in an alternate universe)? I'm pretty sure it's the same thing.