Responding to your edit:

Didn’t get into Trek until long after TNG was off the air, and don’t know if I could sit through the dated production quality of TOS (nothing against it; it was a product of its time and budget).

Some years back the production company replaced all the exterior physical model shots with pretty tasteful CGI. They also cleaned up the image quality and sound of the live action. It was a gentle but successful attempt at addressing some of those production value concerns you have. However, it does nothing for the inherent misogyny in the stories or costume design. I don’t have much of a problem with that because it was progressive for its time.