You're entitled to your opinion, just like anyone else. But frankly, Roddenberry's vision bothers me as being kind of a utopian socialist idealism. I feel like despite him imagining an amazingly good science-fiction series, he also had that underlying agenda that grates on my nerves. (Politically, I'm pretty much your "small l" libertarian. Not necessarily a fan at all of many people who ran for office as part of the Libertarian Party in America, but I'm very much about libertarian philosophies and principles.)
The fact that his universe is far in the future leaves a lot of "wiggle room" to accept that most truly moved beyond Capitalism and a real need for human labor to get things done. (The Ferengi in DS9 are an obvious outlier in that, but I understand that's more because they treat wealth and money as more like a religion.) But there's always been a sense, in my mind, that the Federation acted sort of like a dictator, enforcing what the "new normal" was supposed to be for everybody. And a few Trek episodes even hint at this, when you run into the random characters who operate outside Federation law as traders or scavengers. I feel like the unspoken reality of Roddenberry's Trek is you either comply with Starfleet Command or you're not privileged to take part in the technologies they deploy that allow people to move beyond Capitalism (like replicators that just produce anything you need out of random molecules in the air).
So I actually liked the fact that the Picard series put a spin on things where Starfleet had some corruption going on in it, on the inside, and it wasn't this flawless authority that had no downsides of compliance with its mandates.
