Most people recognize that the good guys/bad guys view of Hamilton and Jefferson is a cartoon, not the truth.
Jefferson was a wretched governor of Virginia, accused of running away from the British. I don't know how true the rumors were, but certainly Hamilton, who actually served in the military and fought, had a better war record than Jefferson.
Jefferson was also naive about the French Revolution. Maybe he couldn't have saved any lives, but did he have to celebrate revolutionary terror his whole life long.
The embargo, which confined US ships to port, was a foolish and ruinous policy. It hurt American merchants and did nothing to the British or the French.
That John Adams felt affection for Jefferson and took up a correspondence with him is arguably more of a tribute to Adams's good qualities than Jefferson's.
People always say of famous slaveowners that their slaves loved them. That can't have been true in every case. Certainly not in this one slave's case:
Remember that unlike Washington and some other founders, Jefferson didn't free his slaves in his will. Also, given the debts he'd accumulated, his overseers probably worked them very hard.
But of course, I left out the worst thing Jefferson did. After Jefferson left office, rather than work to move the country beyond slavery, he made it an issue of state's rights and Northern persecution of the South. For that alone, he can't be the perfect hero his idolaters claim he is.
To be sure, Jefferson was still a great American -- as Hamilton was.