Brian Brophy should have been asked back to play Bruce Maddox.

I looked his pic up, he seems to be in good shape, would probably have loved to get some work along with the residuals over time assuming anyone ever rewatches Picard, and it'd be a nice call back with the original actor.

People like him IMO deserve to be given first refusal for roles like this, or at least heavy consideration and an audition.

And although I read he "chose" to retire from acting, as a redditor and therefore an expert on psychiatry and the film industry, I'd say it was due to not getting a lot of roles.

Doing tons of auditions is hard, and even more so when one of his roles was an uncredited extra in The Waterboy. Maybe he had enough, but I'd bet he would have jumped at the chance.