qwerty> Many people have a hard time discussing individuals who were a mixed bag
everyone is a mixed bag, unless it is coming from a nicely printed “biography”. I don’t want to go back to Moshe Rabbeinu. Take Chofetz Chaim as an example – everyone is learning loshon hora sefarim and Mishna Berurah. His students were roshey yeshivos …
He also wrote multiple seforim trying to deal with Yidden becoming non-religious – some books for those who travel, others for those in the army, including short articles about halochos niddah asking literate women to read this to the illiterate ones… These books express tremendous ahavas Yisroel, but, as far as I can tell, his suggestions, such as “observant fathers provide travelling sons with money to buy kosher food and tell them really really well how important keeping kosher is” and “give tzedokah to travelers so that they eat kosher” and “keep mikvas at least somewhat clean so that Polish sanitary commissions do not close them” and “do not send yor daughters to Polish gymnasia” (but where?) did not really address core issues that caused assimilation and loss of observance. This does not mean, H’V, that the Rav failed, but this means that nobody is a navi and knows answers to all problems … and we see it better with time passed. Same with R Avigdor Miller, he addressed issues the best way he could, some better than others.