Why is Star Trek Picard so brilliant and Star Trek Discovery so stupid, even though there's only 1 year production time in between?

Is it because netflix is only interested in profit and has therefore approved every reasonably good-sounding script in order to quickly launch a new star trek series?

Discovery was awesome.

Different production team and different concept. The team of authors in particular has been strengthened and Patrick Stewart is himself a producer (and, as is well known, he likes profound actions more than action). It is closer to the original (or TNG) than Discovery. Otherwise, it is a matter of taste, who likes what.

And as far as I can tell, Discovery got better with the second season, so it could well be because it was simply the first production with a new team.

That turned out to be nonsense.