I’ve watched STR (ST Reboot) about a dozen times and I just ate it up, and I’ve been watching Trek for over 30 years going back to TOS reruns as a kid.
Canon it wasn’t, but it captured everything I liked about TOS and more. He took the personalities of the original characters and added excellent subtleties and background. The whole franchise had gotten so bogged down that they lost the essence, though I will give credit to trying to revive it with Nemesis and Enterprise. Abrams got it right though.
Most of the Trek fans I know, including my mother who got me into while I was still in diapers, say pretty much the same thing. Most had lost interest in the franchise which was choking itself off to please the canon crowd, and decided to give it one more shot and love the Abrams movie. It’s fun, it’s not drowning in thousands of hours of poorly maintained back story, it’s brightly lit.
It’s kind of sad that the canon people had raised it all the point of a scared cow only to find out there aren’t enough of them to maintain a franchise and then watch Paramount shoot the cow. But if they think that cow was Trek they’re just crazy. It’s saddest that they’d rather have seen the Abrams movie fail so there’d be no Trek than succeed and have non-canon Trek once again on the loose.