Any Star Trek fans that wander in here...if the theme had been an instrumental version, perhaps even orchestraed up, would you have been fine with it? A reminder that TOS had lyrics as well, mainly as a copyright thing to profit, but they exist. And they are far worse than Enterprise's lyrics.
Probably because they made it even worse for the following seasons which made the original "not so bad." Kind of like how people view George W Bush in a more positive light now post-Trump.
Playing semantics. If you want your head canon to be there never were lyrics at all, that's perfectly justifiable, as they were created for money and never aired. They still exist though.
The point is that there were no lyrics to the theme for the actual show. It doesn't matter that lyrics might have been written for it. This discrepancy is quite relevant because we're also discussing if the theme for Enterprise would have sucked less if the theme was the same, but only instrumental.