Well Kurtzman is no Feige, I don’t think he’ll be able to maintain an extended universe, but I would love to be proven wrong. The animated series sounds very interesting to me.
A new animated Trek is long overdue. The Starfleet Academy idea keeps coming back like a bad penny though. According to the making of TMP book, one of the rejected pitches for TAS was making the Enterprise a cadet training vessel. Funny how that sort of did happen in TWOK.