I’ll agree, insofar as different styles of command are needed for different situations. Halsey’s style was more dynamic, Spruance’s more by-the-book. Regardless, he was of very high character, for example:
> So far as my getting five star rank is concerned, if I could have got it along with Bill Halsey, that would have been fine; but, if I had received it instead of Bill Halsey, I would have been very unhappy over it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_A._Spruance
> [Nimitz] lies alongside his wife and his long-term friends Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Admiral Richmond K. Turner, and Admiral Charles A. Lockwood and their wives, an arrangement made by all of them while living.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz