Managed to watch episode 10, end of series, and it was enjoyable.
Then it was also highly predictable, I mean, they tell you what is going to happen a long time before they do it. I heard some bits put forward a couple of weeks ago.
Scapegoat issue correct. Everyone cries for Picard, Series 2? The spare body was far too obvious. Riker arrives with cavalry, predicted.
They set everything up for a huge battle and then nothing. Romulans do off home and so does the Fed. Mind this is one of the principles of the original Trek.
The one disappointment was the alien machines that looked more like a bunch of mechanical worms. Then we have seen them previously. Could have been so much better.