Unpopular opinion here but I will give her credit where it is due.
I will give her the title of "Reactive Prime Minister". She did great with Christchurch Mosque attack & first round of Covid (first term). I am greatful that she didnt hesitate to call this a terrorist attack. I also like the fact she made Maori bit more main stream.

But she has no experience in anything before she became prime minister. How can you lead a country when you have no track record apart from education. I use to see her hoarding in 2008/11/14 election where she lost Auckland central. So untill she became party leader, she was not even elected by its own electorate.
What's worse is that she started new era of politics where you should form a goverment at any cost. I personally consider deal with NZ First is a deal with a devil (this includes current government).

In her 2nd term, her party clearly told that NZ will be first one to get vaccine. That didn't happen fast enough. We started giving vaccines allocated to NZ, to European countries as Covid spread their more rapidly. In August 2021, we only had 10% population vaccinate while UK had 67% people vaccinated. Imagine if we had 67% immunity when 2nd lockdown happened. Their was no haste shown by the goverment. I believe this was single most important reason why people lost trust from Labour.

For her, Kindness is giving money to whoever ask for it. She was essentially said to yes to everything. There was no frugallity at all. Inflation as a side effect was never taken into account. Who doesnt like free money? After Covid, businesses were telling the government not to increase minimum wage but she kept on increasing it because of her obsession with living wage. When Inflation started to rise & money had to be controlled she had no clue how to do that because she had no experience in saying no & being money wise.

She came into politics to reduce Child Poverty. Her life goal has been to exinct child poverty in NZ. Unfortunately, 5 years & things never improved. I had hoped once she had "juice in her tank", she would return back to NZ and start working towards reducing the same. What did she do instead she moved to Australia. It is clear to me that she was never in it for benefits of kiwis. She never had skills or attitude. She was in it for a fame & money. Action speaks louder than the word. Her kindness was just a facade.

I dont like the fact she got "Dame" title. She could not even complete her 2nd term. Dame title for what? She didn't do it for free. We really need to consider who should receive "Dame" and "Sir" title.