It's because literally no one cared about any of those characters, their plots and the entire plot was shit apart from Raffi and that was only cause Michelle Hurd is a good actress.The way season 2 unceremoniously drops so many of the original characters because they needed the money to pay for the TNG cast is particularly insulting. It’s why it’s so difficult to look at Picard as a series as a whole because the seasons are so disjointed from each other.