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No. 115431
Well Aang ran away and lead to 100 years of war and genocide.
Objectively, he would have prematurely stopped a lot of suffering if he didn't chicken out and run away from home. But by the same token if he hadn't he wouldn't meet Katara, Toph etc. and his life and personality would have been completely different as a result.
Aang managed to maintain his innocence and cheerful personality due to skipping a lot of terrible stuff first hand, and having Katara and Sokka's influence around to soften the blow when he, say, found Gyatso's body.
Avatars are people, and people are flawed. Flaws enable people to grow and change as they age, causing a lot of good and bad along the way. Wan made mistakes, but the world would be radically different if he hadn't worked to fix them.
The Avatars need to be human, 'cause if they were perfect then everything they did would be justified by it being the right decision. Aang might have killed Zuko in the Promise because that would have been the "right" decision, but Aang confronting his flaws enabled him to realise that there was more than one way to end conflict.
Look at it this way, would you prefer someone wandering the world as a god-like being who is able to grow and change as a person, or would you prefer them to be 100% certain that what they did was right, regardless of how horrible the actions she might need to take to fix the balance might be?
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