Let's discuss - was Vader a good leader or a poor one? What about Yoda?

Vader was a follower, not a leader.

Vader was more the Emperor’s personal enforcer and head of his Gestapo. He’s not that effective of a leader because he terrifies the troops, but he’s great for fricking people’s worlds up. Vader pretty much only had authority when others were fricking up and the Emperor needed to put a gun to their head.

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If Vader has been my father I would’ve joined him a ruled the galaxy.

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You think Vader and Luke could have taken the Emperor?

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On the one hand, he did achieve nearly wiping out the Jedi

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He killed some kids, one old guy who quit mid-fight, and waited for another old guy to die.

Vader was great at getting people to do things. He was not great at helping them figure out how to accomplish complex goals, because he himself did not seem very great at accomplishing complex goals. He understood only force, and his main problem-solving method was “if something doesn’t do what you want, hit it again, but harder this time.” Witness his response when Admiral Piett told him the Millennium Falcon had taken refuge in an asteroid field, where the fleet could not follow them: “Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses.” Contrast him with Palpatine, who reveled in his own cleverness and was certainly capable of playing a very long and devious game in order to get what he wanted.

Yoda, meanwhile, was an exceptionally poor leader (at least at the end of his life, since he was presumably Grandmaster of the Jedi Order for quite a long time prior to our first encounter with him). He might be forgiven for failing to detect the fact that Palpatine was in fact a Sith Lord, but certainly he should have realized before he did that the Senator/Chancellor was the main benefactor of all the events surrounding the Clone Wars and therefore a prime suspect for having set it all up, especially once the clone army was discovered, since that was very clearly planned by someone well in advance. And then, once Sidious had triumphed and Yoda realized it was too late to try and stop him, what was his big plan? Go hide in a swamp and wait twenty years for Skywalker’s kids to grow up so he could kick the problem down the road to the next generation. Never mind the fact that waiting would result in a grand total of two potential Jedi in the galaxy to try and stop the Empire - the same number, you might note, as Yoda and Obi-Wan themselves made. No, best to let some kids handle it. They’d clearly do a better job than two fully-trained and experienced Jedi Knights, one of whom had just bested Vader in a one-on-one fight.

None of them were leaders like her.

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was Vader a good leader

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Vader was an absolutely perfect, ruthless, follower of orders and killing machine. He wasn't a leader. Palpatine was the master mind. Vader was his weapon. A perfect weapon.

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He killed some kids, one old guy who quit mid-fight, and waited for another old guy to die.

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Have you never seen A New Hope or read any lore or books or seen any cartoons or played any video games?

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A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights

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or read any lore or books or seen any cartoons or played any video games?

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Nah that's lame

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A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights

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Lucas changed his minds with the prequels.

The Emperor is essentially Sean Peyton while Vader is Drew Brees, just a really talented grunt. But they need each other

ETA: Anakin never took Obi Wan or any of the other leaderships lessons on leadership, it would have been different if Qui Gon lived.