Sir Stewart has also repeatedly shown his personal politics to be pretty in line with what the show shows. So it's fine either way.

Maybe in political views, but does the show Picard seem like someone who would (twice) leave his wife to marry a woman half his age? Would Picards children not want to talk to him in his old age?

It's easy to be in alignment with a system that has replicators that can magically produce whatever you what.