Let's be honest, the first 3-5 episodes of season one were rough. Litter with a lot of the flaws that plague "current year" writing-ie POC Mary Sue protagonist, ineffectual male characters, random misplaced humor, etc.etc. But halfway through that season, when the writers & the showrunners decided to throttle back on Mariner's "Mary Sue-ness", Boimler stopped being the butt of every joke, Rutherford & Tendy started to show they were actually competent at their jobs; that's when the show actually became watchable, dare I decent.
Season Two came around and started truly building these characters up, and while Mariner was still really good at more or less everything, her character stopped being smug about it, started to show a side of vulnerability, was actually wrong or lost from time-to-time, and above all else started to actually behave like a real human being and not the woke caricature she started out as (or what Micheal Burnam continues to be in Discovery).
Now we get to season three, and ironically it's the most Trek lore accurate series in all of nuTrek. It's like they actually care about Trek canon. And scarily has the better written characters and stories compared to the rest of the nuTrek shows. Unlike the other more recent shows, you can tell that these writers have actually seen Star Trek and understands how it works, and because they understand so well, that's why the jokes, the sight gags, and references work. And ever since that course correction halfway through it's first season, it has continued to work and get better, which the exact opposite of "Strange New Worlds" which seemingly fell apart halfway through it's first season and "Discovery" which has been getting worse as time goes on.