Well, this is exactly what I'm talking about - the Star Trek fan base taught you that it somehow matters that there's no gold model of the Enterprise from the prequel show (or that such a thing could even be expected!) It *doesn't* matter! Storytelling, being entertained, exploring new ideas... the wonder of it all. Those are the important things. But instead of a community that understands any of that we now have a bunch of guys who sit around on the internet insisting that a television show is somehow 'destroying' another television show by not providing enough (or... the right kind?) of 'continuity'. What does that even mean?!
Continuity is a fun thing -- but it's one point among many that should never have become definitive. If anything, it's a flashy drug that distracts you from how and why a show is good. Ask yourself: all those years ago when you loved ST:TNG... did you do so because it was especially careful about being 'in continuity' with the original series, or did you love it because it was well made, it had great acting, it told interesting stories and it was something new? Was that summer between Best of Both Worlds I and II so long because of *continuity*? No, it was because the show was so compelling and because we wanted to see more of it for its own sake.
... but if at the end of the day you really believe that continuity is the most important thing to a Star Trek story, then I still fail to see how you can complain about Enterprise -- they gave people *exactly* that with the last season, which as a massive collection of continuity-based stories (to the point of being over the top, I would argue.)
The point is, though, how can a TV show possibly make you feel bad? It's not yelling at you, it's not criticizing you... it was well made, it was fun, it told interesting stories. The worst epsiode of Voyager was still worth an hour of my time and just the idea that I could turn on the TV each week and see a new adventure was amazing. But then the "community" decided that the important thing in all this was poorly constructed base criticism and they ruined that experience. I think it's a crying shame that my kids won't get to enjoy new Star Trek episodes like I did growing up because of a bunch of unpleasant nerds who thought too highly of themselves.
(Edited as an aside -- when I was a boy continuity was essentially a *game*. You pointed out 'problems' with a show because it was a fun mental excersize. More of a 'look how much I know about the old show!' sort of thing. Today it's some kind of deadly serious game that decides whether a show lives or dies. What the *heck* happened?)