I think this is why they decided to go back so far for Star Trek: Enterprise, rather than doing something like a pre-Cage NCC-1701, because they didn't want to have to worry about messing with pre-established characters, vessels and events. By going back so far, they avoided, for the most part, exactly what we see going wrong npw. Had Enterprise been with April or Pike's crew, we'd be saying that the Enterprise looks nothing like the one from the cafe and so on.

This is a reboot, that essentially lacks the balls to take itself as a reboot. Some sort of separation anxiety perhaps? Afraid to let go of the hand of pre-existing Trek and fly on its own. That doesn't bode well for it. Superman Returns was the last reboot I can remember that couldn't quite bring itself to let go of pre-existing canon and truely start over, and the end result was a disaster to say the least.