I avoided watching this for 20 (!) years, because the reviews were ambivalent. But it's really fun. It's not awesome, like the Kirk/Spock series, but it's also (thus far) not excessively moralizing like TNG.
This is the only Star Trek (for me) that captures the wonder of the original series. The writing isn't great, but that was never a thing with Star Trek. They're also a bit kinetic, say, with discovering new Warp-Civilizations.
I also really appreciate that the crew is basically white, except for one black guy that's not blackity-black.
Even the chicks are fine. The writing for the Asian chick is a bit insipid, but it accurately reflects the chick version of the 'hero's journey'.
Unfortunately, they've introduced Time Travel, so I guess a few of the episodes are going to be tedious.
It's called 'Enterprise' but the ship is a rust bucket with pea shooters. It's unimpressive in every conceivable way and most of the ship-to-ship conflicts become exercises in teeth-gritting.
It may have been a throwback to the 'foregone' days of Starfleet but there was nothing satisfying about seeing that decrepit vessel deploy its pea shooters to fire its pew-pew lasers.
The CGI was also noticeably lacking and could not measure up to the Defiant or even Voyager. And most of the interpersonal ship dynamics were eye-rollingly bad.
It came across as a cheap, budget project.
That's part of the core concept of the show though: this isn't the mighty Federation, a powerful political entity with an armada of top of the line spacecraft. It's earth, a relatively unimportant planet taking its first steps into the universe
If you're familiar with aviation history, the US didn't build a single fighter plane in World War 1, and all of its fighters were borrowed from France (like how the Vulcans are the keepers of knowledge and technology in Enterprise).
Contrast that with the Korean War-era and later where the US is now the undisputed master of military aviation, with the exception of the mysterious and inscrutable Soviets (a role filled by the Klingons in TOS).
I'll grant you that the execution was somewhat lacking, but I found the concept interesting, with enough historical analogs that it was believable.
The concept was fine, the execution was laughably bad. The non-traditional casting for the Vulcans and Romulans was also grating.