I agree with you on this. Chronological, or chronological with omissions (perhaps with later backfill), is always a good choice. With Discworld I can see people

I agree with you on this. Chronological, or chronological with omissions (perhaps with later backfill), is always a good choice. With Discworld I can see people choosing to read just subseries. (I read Discworld completely out of order and it was fine, but I'm not going to argue that it was _better_.) There may be some odd exceptions. If someone came to me and said "I want to see if Star Trek is something I'm interested in" I wouldn't tell them to start at the beginning of the original series, nor would I recommend viewing any single series from the start. I could see a "tasting flight" approach to the franchise where you bounce back and forth between the series... but even then I feel like you'd want to keep some degree of production-order structure within the individual series.