I've started watching it. I just subscribed to Netflix - timed it so that the month's free trial will let me see the first run of episodes.
Then I can decide whether to continue.
I've only watched the first two episodes so far, so I'm not reading all the posts in this thread yet. I definitely enjoyed them. I really liked the Klingon scenes, how they explored the Klingon lore, and liked how it was all subtitled. I liked how uncompromising the Klingons were, so we know the stakes will be high.
There was really only three interesting Starfleet characters in these first two episodes but I'm assuming we get more series regulars when the Discovery is introduced. I thought the title sequence was really good also.
The few niggles I had were the amount of JJ Abrams-style lens flares in the first episode - completely don't see the point of that. Also that the ships' phasers and hand phasers are pulse-type lasers like in Star Wars, and the new Trek films, rather than beam weapons of old, bothered me a bit lol.
The other thing that bothered me, but I'll probably get used to it, is that they use holograms now to communicate ship-to-ship which is new for the time-period in Star Trek. It's probably another thing they've copied out of Star Wars, but I can see a good reason for it also, in that Star Trek tech can start to look dated to our 2017 eyes, if they don't update it to take account of technologies we know now are coming.
Definitely one of the best Star Trek pilots - and some of them haven't been great.