Actually the show was way ahead of it's time because one of the creators was also its show runner, Jeri Taylor.
But this caused the one big story issue with the writing. Too many of the plots were about how only women could solve the issues and the men were only contributors, exactly a flip-flop of prior Trek.
This made it unattractive to a key demographic, young men. But it attracted women, daughters and grand-daughters, who would gather around the TV together like the next episode of Bold and the Beautiful. And why wouldn't they? It showed women in roles of authority, leadership, technical knowledge, and in blended families.
But the ratings were terrible, 18-34 men weren't watching. Out with Jeri Taylor, in with Michael Piller. Out with the weaker female role, in with a knockout female role.
It worked, the male 18-34 demographic came back and the show reversed its trajectory. The episode plot depth got deeper and richer and yes, it embraced the "tropes", which seems to be a popular term now in reviewing anything Star Trek.
I knew Voyager had made an impact in the Trek fabric when Janeway had a brief cameo with Picard in a TNG movie and the audience cheered and clapped.
Pillers use of the Nine character directly led to the creation of T'pol in Enterprise by Brandon Braga.
Jeri Ryan will always be associated with her role as Nine, just as Bill Shatner will always be Kirk.