You can't make a claim to be just like it's 1969 again and yet keep doing things to undermine your stated intent.
To be absolutely clear I never claimed Vic Mignogna is quoted saying the specifoc words, "it's still 1969." However, in interview after interview, particularly in the beginning as STC got going, Vic repeatedly talked of "picking up exactly where the original series left off." That speaks to intent to be as faithful as possible to the original series. He then repeatedly elaborates on recreating the original series in every detail possible--not only in terms of how things look but also in the kinds of stories they intend to do. He also makes a point of saying that references to post TOS productions would be kept to a minimum and kept generally vague simply because the original production crew would simply have had no idea what was forthcoming in the years and decades to come.
Of course, we can easily see that that isn't what unfolded over the STC's six episodes. The results have been hit-and-miss. Vic's enthusiasm is unmistakable, but perhaps he was given to a touch of hyperbole in promoting his production, because you can't say you want to
pick up exactly where TOS left off and then proceed to include things that simply couldn't have been there if TOS had continued for another season or two.
I'm not criticizing Vic for his choice of words or his sentiment or his intent. I'm allowing that perhaps he didn't fully appreciate his words could convey an intent that didn't play out as some might have expected. As others have already said, including a holodeck and a ship's counselor from the get-go immediately signaled they weren't really picking up where TOS left off. Some of their references have been suitably vague while others not so much. And there is certainly nothing at all vague about their intended final closing scene of the TOS
E in drydock.
And while STC has avoided the cliche
pew-pew stories of phaser fights and ship battles and messing with the Klingons and such they have indulged in a favourite pastime of many fan productions and fanfic of revisiting past episodes with followups, something TOS was not given to do except twice: "The Menagerie" two-parter is something of a followup to the then unaired "The Cage" and "I, Mudd" is something of a followup to "Mudd's Women" in bringing back Harry Mudd. Out of seventy-nine episodes TOS did a followup twice and out of six episodes STC has done a followup three times. That's a very different batting average.
So this is a contradiction to doing the kinds of stories TOS did and picking up exactly where TOS left off and recreating the series as faithfully as possible.
This is the series Vic obviously wants to do even if his words conveyed a somewhat different intent that played out inconsistently.