what star trek: strange new worlds suggests is that for 100 years the holodeck had a problem with getting uncontrollably more powerful, trapping and killing people in it and strangling the ship to death, and they just gave up and started installing it on starships anyway and expected users to fix it
TOS Scotty: “I cannae do it Cap’n, I’m given it all she’s got (except for the power that my secret holdodeck that I’m tinkering with in my spare time is tapping)”
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SNW Scotty seems to be more of a nincompoop who stumbles into the right answer (with the help of Pelia, natch).