lesschumras… some Shoftim from the Tanach were deeply flawed, you said?
You couldn’t be more wrong. From the books of the mukabolim I have read, the Judges were deep in Torah knowledge and the Torah nistar. All the actions you read about had deeper mystical significance.
You just don’t know because you haven’t read the seforim on them. What Shimson alone was doing mystically in his actions was amazing…!
Do not underestimate Sefer Shoftim or Sefer Shmuel – there is vast depth beneath their surface. It is just not permitted to write about openly.