They have remote replicators and holographic projectors everywhere, which actually makes it weird that Picard is the only one who modifies his room. Further the mess could have what ever seating each person prefers as needed and a nicer table, and having the replicator boxes is pointless because it is established food can appear where ever it is needed. Go a small step forward, and have it so food appears on holographic pedestals if no surface is right near a person, or just hovers in mid air thanks to invisible forcefield. So instead of the alcohol appearing on the sloped console it could have appeared on a table right next to Rios. Every time coffee is ordered it could just appear at arm level, maybe even follow a person around when let go and maintain relative position.
Same goes for all the controls. Why bother with hard to see transparent holograms which require lifting your arms repeatedly or holding them up when there could have been a combination of on the fly physical controls both holographic and replicated, and indistinguishable from reality full 3D representative objects? Save the free floating holographic displays for information overlay. When Rios describes what is wrong with the warp core it would have been a perfect time to use free floating semi-transparent holographic information as a descriptive overlay and kind of x-ray effect. The free floating Enterprise and Enterprise-D should have looked like scale models, not ghosts. Flat panels should have produced a window like 3D viewing experience just as the main bridge displays used to. The interview at the start of the series could have appeared in miniature or life size as desired rather than bothering with a TV like experience. The cell phone stand-ins would have made sense creating life size holograms of the people involved because it creates the most natural conversational experience, and for privacy those life size people could be visible only from the specific viewing angle of the one holding the phone.
