I do have to agree with you. I guess being a kid in the 80's watching TOS, I picked up that why we may look different and be from different places, we are all very much alike. There's just something about Discovery that doesn't feel like Trek to me. It felt like every episode is an end of universe event and that what makes us different is what is most important. Trek, to me, was not about constant end of universe events and felt like it showed no matter how different we were, we could come together to achieve greater things.
Some of my favorite episodes of all the series' is when it seems they follow a character through what could be considered an average day for them. Seems like those are gone currently.