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Everyone is always focused on a new ship and crew. DS9 proved you don't need that to make a great Trek.
A well written show about how the Admiralty handles this early situations like the Earth Romulan War on a larger scale, that then sometimes dives down into those early Startleet officers trying to handle those directly would be a unique perspective really only DS9 and a handful of scenes in SNW sort of scratched the surface with.
We are yet to get an admirality based show also. War time admirals show please. Fighting on two fronts, problems with politicians. Home front and civil liberties issues. Weapons development and labs. Intelligence failures, double agents, and insurgencies. All set in the trek Universe.
That sounds fantastic. No way it'll happen!
DS9 had not just a new starship but a whole new type of location instead of a ship with a memberberry name l. Also, besides Miles who was only a minor character in TNG and only in DS9 became a fleshed out person and Worf much later in the show, every character was a brand new one (with the exception of some side characters that came back for an episode or two but not every week).
DS9 is a good example of what OP means.
The Defiant wasn't introduced until the third season, the DS9 series was already established by that point as having the Station be the equivalent of the ships from previous series. And after introduction it was only in a fraction of the episodes.
The Defiant was not the primary location of the show, it was the Delta Flyer of DS9. It was useful for certain stories to be told outside the station, but it was not the focus of the show.
But who's talking about the Defiant?
Maybe I misread your previous comment. It seemed like you were talking about how DS9 had both a new ship, the Defiant, and the station. And the OP I originally responded to specifically mentioned using a new ship and crew.
I was pointing out that a new ship wasn't even necessary as long as there was an interesting enough location, like DS9's station. Focusing on Starfleet HQ specifically and the Admiralty's decisions as Starfleet is created, as opposed to frontline crews can be an interesting location we haven't seen yet. And different enough that it's not just another ship and crew puttering about like most of the shows have been.
My comment was meant as "we need a new location and DS9 was a prime example of a new location because it wasn't just a new ship (a ship is a location) but a new typeof location, too (because it wasn't a ship).
I guess that's because most Star Trek shows take place on a starship. I didn't read it as they specifically want a new ship but more as "please, don't give us another show about known characters in a location we already know".
I personally couldn't care less about admiralty in HQ though. In Star Trek, that is marketed by "where no one has gone before" I want to see acting crews far away from the comfortability of making decisions behind a desk.