Yeah. I get the idea that there are some Trek fans who literally just want Trek to be what TOS was and noting else. That is to say, have a ship with a crew and the thinnest of continuity, allowing the exploration of potentially cool sci-fi ideas. The problem is, most of the cool sci-fi ideas were either already explored by Trek, or would require a whole different sort of sci-fi setting to explore. You can see this with The Orville - which I like, but aside from the humor is basically just mining and recyling trek tropes.
Or hell, let's look at Trek movies. TMP had no fanwank (unless you count the Decker reference), but it was basically a ripoff in terms of the plot from the TOS episode The Changeling. TWOK basically was fanwank, as it was a direct sequel to Space Seed. Or look at TNG movies. First Contact was basically fankwank - it gave us more Borg, was a sequel to BoBW, and fleshed out the backstory of the Federation. Insurrection and Nemesis had little to no fanwank, were basically self-contained stories, and they were mediocre at best.
I should state I don't like being pandered to, so I can understand when people complain about insertions which reference canon but don't do much for the story. But aside from the blatant pandering of the final shot with the Enterprise, those little easter eggs didn't bother me with Discovery. Entirely different, unrelated things bothered me.
