Upvoted for peluche

Picard (the show) is many years after Nemesis, it doesn’t make sense how they forced him to lead a ragtag band of space outlaws after years of settling down.

Picard (the character) went by the book if possible, and it took extreme circumstances for his moral compass to override his officer duty. It’s not the same character in the new show; the original Picard was coherent with his principles, the new Picard behaves like Han Solo.