No kidding. Fletcher just couldn't hack it out there... thankfully, we faced somewhat more incompetent Japanese commanders.
An interesting point: aside from Raizo Tanaka, most Japanese naval commanders required the Americans to act in the way they wished them too when writing their operational plans.
Tanaka was a tactical commander, and used his advantages (torpedoes, night optics) superbly.
Probably the best US tacticians were Moosbrugger and Arleigh Burke; and Burke was the only one to have two battles where he exercised tactical command.