The "lack of magic" doesn't have a thing to do with shorter seasons. It's all because of woke politics infecting entertainment and people who don't understand or care what Star Trek was always about. It also hurts that many actors on the shows have turned out to be regressive lunatics, with Tim Russ being the latest by disparaging Charlie Kirk's death in a sociopathic media post.
We've seen this exact same thing happen with too many other franchises. "Modern creatives" or woke execs pick something with an in-built fandom, try and shove their own version of it that betrays everything the original was about onto fans, and then attack them when audiences tune out. It's not hard to understand if you don't live in a regressive bubble like Braga does.