Watched it over my lunch break this afternoon. While it was very pretty (just like Discovery is pretty), it seemed very out of joint with classic Star Trek. That's not necessarily a bad thing - I like to see an IP go in new directions sometimes rather than treading the same ground over an over - but like with Discovery, this felt pretty flat/hollow to me. And regardless of the fact that it's probable that this is still the regular TNG timeline (ie, we're just past the point where original Spock went back and split the movie timeline, from my reading of the situation), until something more definitive is stated in or out of universe, the argument could be made that the reason this feels different from TNG is due to timeline changes due to the Ambramsverse.
Fruitless arguments on that aside, I'm also not really feeling Picard as the protagonist on this one - the fact that Stewart is rapidly approaching 80 is very apparent to me, and while I'm sure he's well suited for the mentor role they're setting him up for as the cast coalesces, it hampers the pilot for me to have the character that the bulk of the runtime revolves around feel so weak, for lack of a better term.