Discovery was just so ham fisted when they tried to make points and missed massive opportunities when they could have been done organicity because of the situation.

I really thought the first extra plus future season was going to be a comment on colonialism, but no they just turned up, said they were the more civilised ones and y'all should join our new improved federation. The opportunity was just sitting there to show people figuring out their own culture and not appreciating an interloper dictating how their lives should be simply because they have a fancy starship.

Not to mention declaring their ship sentient because it dreams. It just screams 'conform to our expectations of what sentience should be and we will accept you as a person' They portrayed the exact opposite of what they intended.

(sorry for the rant, I was mauled by a Federation as a child)