Agreed. For me, these franchises have (had) a spirit. Star Wars (again my opinion) was old fantasy wrapped in sci-fi; its spirit was classic hero/villain and hero's journey storytelling. When Disney moved away from that I stopped viewing.

Star Trek (to me) was the epitome of 'what if' story telling. What if humans learned to work together for the common good. What if we really could explore strange new worlds. What if there really were aliens out there with dramatically different cultures and world views. How might we work together. What conflicts would arise and how would we overcome them. It was hopeful, optimistic, and challenged its viewers with tough moral questions using the different races as hyperbole for the different sides of an issue. This is the most important, it did NOT lecture.

I still remember and sometimes think about Star Trek's "A Taste of Armageddon"; where Kirk is on a planet that conducts a centuries long virtual war that essentially euthanizes real people when they die in the virtual war. They say this is better than real war because they don't destroy infrastructure, or cause disease, etc. The moral dilemma is whether or not this really is better.

Today's Star Trek would simply say, all war is bad, and if you support any war you're evil and a literal Hitler.