Another factor in Picard S2 was that the characters - through whom the show is telling you what it thinks - are from a future where those problems don’t exist. That made it feel to me like a lecture from a position of privilege. I really only realized this while watching Quantum Leap (the more recent show; I’ve not yet seen the original), where the characters live in the present day and tend to deal with problems that do still exist in their own time.

That wouldn’t surprise me. The PDS handling both authentication and data storage makes it easy to get started quickly without needing to do backend work.