Leaving aside the fact that Chuckles is one of the very few Trek characters I dislike (which seems a weird word to use about fictional people, but anyway), I genuinely don't see the relevance of Seven and him breaking up. People break up with each other after two dates all the time, and it was over 20 years ago. Chuckles isn't in this series (thank God - shame he was in Voyager). Beverly and Picard are. They're relevant to this series. Chuckles isn't. I don't see the point of making even a tiny mountain out of this irrelevant molehill.
I am not, at the time I was just using it as an example of the kind of thing we were getting for other characters, or might expect to get, and using it as a point of comparison.
We didn’t need to know much about why Rios left Starfleet. We didn’t even need to know that he *was* in Starfleet. It was good that he was, and what we got worked, but we got more for a new character than we did for a returning one. In comparison, Seven seems underdone in Picard.
When bringing back established (or as we call them now, legacy) characters, part of the reason is to appeal to fans of that character/series, and people want to know what they’ve been doing. Ro Laren is the Seven of TNG, and we got a monologue with what she did, what she’s been doing, what she’s going to do now as a result — it’s was enough for one episode, but if she had stayed longer we would have eventually needed a little more to bed the character back in. Seven has been here for three series, is from an entirely different series to TNG, and could stand a little more fleshing out for the between years.
I am not actually fussed about 7/Chakotay (though do think it makes way more sense than the general opinion, even if J/Chakotay also makes sense, and everyone was really after J/7… maybe we should have just got J/7/Chakotay in canon and made heads explode) just about it as an example of something that is typically followed up on but wasn’t.
In comparison to s3 s1 seems a little soft at the edges.
Though s1 mystery child was better than s3 mystery child so far, but I may have bias.
This is not a fan saying ‘why don’t I haz resolution to the onscreen ship’ this is a fan, who is also a fan of storytelling, saying ‘that could have been handled better, this series seems to now be handling such things better’.
The only relationships they better not screw with if/when they come back is Tom/Bells, Dax/Bashir, Kira/Odo, and the O’Briens.