>Having a character overcome superior odds through cleverness and skill is great; having them overcome superior odds because their enemies are idiots who just happen to do everything exactly wrong is boring.

Only the very early and the later books suffer from it thought, and the story have "good" reasons for the former.

Honor do not face utterly dumb antagonist on the following books until the Solarian come into play, and there it is indeed way overdone on the many small battle between the various Alliance and Solarian fleets in which Honor actually only leads 2 actions.