I agree that David Weber have some flaws as a writer, and certainely suffer from the lack of a strong editor on his latest books ( much should have been cut from them ).

Honor is often too good on too many things, but not everything Honor wants to or is about to do is perfect or right.

On the second book for exemple >!her choice to send the heaviest ship away on a patrol because their captains are women turned out to be a mistake leading to the one sided destruction of a fleet and the death of a dear friend. She is also later on the verge of executing prisonners of war, war criminals, rapists, disguting scums who will be shot for their crime anyway, but she was about to kill them on the spot without trial until one of her officiers stopped her.!<

As for Honor or Merlin's lack of introspection, i fully disagree, >!Honor tortures herself with her feelings with the Admiral for 3 ( 4? ) whole books before she is invited into the marriage by his wife. Merlin often wonder whether what he has done was the right thing, and later SPOILER !< >!pick the opportunity of not including those recent memories into the his "copy", thus saving her from suffreing the very same dilemnas .!<

Many of the characters in both the Honorverse and Safehold are indeed too "black or white", on both the friendly and the ennemy sides. Skipping the chapters on their points of view is not an unreasonnable way to improve reading experience, especially for the church official for Safehold where the systematic retelling of events prevents any loss of information anyway.