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Sorry for the late reply, but I've now watched the two seasons of Strange New Worlds and just can't agree with you.
Strange New Worlds works at establishing plot lines, in the first season telling you a central character plot point and a few episodes later doing an episode around it. Until the J'Gal character plot there aren't even any twists.
What I mean with plot weaving would be something like the Vulcan Archeological Medicine fellowships being a secret Romulan plot (established through the multiple glimpses into what they're studying), or having reconstructed Pike after his premonition so that he can escape it.
And this totally makes sense, Strange New Worlds is a TOS tribute, and those are notorious for being very episodal, with almost no links between episodes outside the main characters.
Either we have different interpretations of plot weaving, or it's extremely subtle that I cant detect it after a rewatch.