No, it’s because Kirk respected Scotty and gave him leeway.
Picard is the meathead, if anyone, and actually watching all the episodes in detail and figuring out their characters you’ll realise that Kirk is twice the scholar and then some Picard pretended to be, especially accounting for the movies and later series. Kelvin timeline doesn’t count, of course.
I like Kirk was shoot first ask later unlike Picard but Picard was always “oh 1 hour - make it in 30 mins” or “1 hour - make it quick you have 15mins”