Buddy, are you trying to make me pull an extra-ocular muscle from how hard my eyes just rolled?
If you like one aspect of the franchise you don't need to whine about another not being to your taste to express that. I don't shit on ENT every time I want to talk about DS9.
So, canonically speaking, "Lower Decks" is right around the time Starfleet would find out about the impending Romulan supernova and begin redeploying the fleet for the evacuation.
Maybe a little heavy for this show, but also a convenient excuse to move the Cerritos to the front lines?