I really don't understand the argument that Star Trek Picard is a dystopia. Like, lots of really horrible stuff happen in TOS and TNG, and in the movies, it just didn't have contemporary production values
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I think it's partly that people instinctively want to think of the Federation as like the US in its present day form, the global hegemon that helps people or lets them suffer at a whim We've lost the sense of what it was like in the Cold War to have an actual opponent
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Anyway people have forgotten a lot of shit from the OG Star Trek, like how even in TNG Tasha Yar came from this post-apocalyptic hell world where she spent her childhood dodging rape gangs
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