I'm probably the only person here to crack the spine of a Star Trek book, but I can tell you what reason there was to read what the books did with the post-Nemesis timeline is pretty much gone. Like the video touched upon, the whole Section 31 aspect of Trek has been cleansed like a patriarchy. The new novel that just dropped is a revisionist effort to emasculate Picard as a weakened character who needs redemption as he has been touched by them.
Of course, the whole situation with the books started to go bad in '09 when Abrams made his diktat about stopping TOS+ licensed output. It went back and forth during the films until Disco came with CBS giving the push to get the main popular authors to do those instead of more TNG. That was an active effort to kill the market thinking they would shift to the new books.
However, all that time, the main TNG book's canon wasn't actively interfered with but for some ever-less subtle, hamfisted at times, current commentary about Trump or racial privilege. That's changed. Now they are killing off characters previously seen as strong pillars of Starfleet, even heroes on screen in TNG/DS9/VOY, retconned as criminal members of Section 31 the whole time.
The clincher here is that, for the first time in this canon, Phillipa Georgiou is mentioned as a past pioneer in Starfleet. That didn't come across as some cute drop in reference, not when considering the rest. It's just one more effort to put a nail in the coffin of classic Trek coming back under the current regime.
I wonder if, like Abrams before, that's what Kurtzman is insisting upon now. Burn it all down before any merger so he can keep the reins in all media.