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Actually, good plot execution is a must for any self-respecting show. A lot of shows have a fairly simple plot, but the importance is execution.
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I'll have to give you that for Striker's second half, where it seemd to lose any sense of direction. Prior to that the show was going strong, at least in my book. Then again, it is greatly a matter of taste (except when its so badly done everyone can agree on that) so this point is arguable at best.
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Subaru is well developed. Teana is. Nanoha is too. Fate too in a manner.
Erio? Caro? VILLAINS? Honestly, a lot feels flat as well. It's like character development was misdivided between important cast members.
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It can be argued that Nanoha is more than just the anime, but a project enveloping the manga and the sound stages. If you consider Nanoha as that, then you can count in many of the characters who were shafted in the series as having their share of development. You can just think of it as a new paradigm where the objective is to have more material for the show to be more developed/so that the otakus have more to buy= more revenue.
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As in a good balance of plot, character development, build-up, drama, tension and all that...
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It's not like every show has to balance all those factors, it all depends on what the series, producers directors and the people behind it want to do with it. Is Aria a bad show because it has close to nil plot, and the character development and growth is subtle at best? No, because Aria doesn't even care about those (at least for the former) It is a show about the world it takes place in, and about the interaction of the characters with such world.)
Likewise, Nanoha's plot has always been more or less an excuse for the character to have something to use magic on. Nanoha's plot has always been weak from the start, and the setting was never the focus to begind with, since Nanoha was more about the characters, their relationship with the magic they stumbled upon, with the hurdles they came against with and the confrontation between ideals. For me, Nanoha is a show about the characters and about their conflicts. Sure, it is by no means a masterpiece at that, since it has many flaws (including a big one called Vivio) but for the most part it is quite a decent project (in the anime/ss/manga sense) when seen from this POV
on another matter, maybe we should ask the mods for a thread about our opinion's on Nahoha's overall direction and related topics, since this is quite a recurrent topic in almost all the threads in this sub-forum.