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Not really.
The way their characters are presented and the actor's ability do matter, it's why Vince Vaughn's Norman Bates was hated so much. However, most of these contrasts aren't even in the actor's control either, it's how they're written. Hux and Tarkin are just different characters.
Hux is more loud and confrontational to rivals, using passion and zealotry to augment his authority, screaming his order to fire the Starkiller Base (something of a parallel to Nazi theatrics, which means him falling for Poe's prank call kind of makes sense. Theatrics the Nazis used cannot stand effectively to ridicule, which is why The Producers was an effective parody). Hux also has a different dynamic with his department Black Mage, being a bitter rival with him and willing to kill him while he's down and argue for leadership until put in his place (and even after that, he still tries to exert influence by repeating orders Kylo already said).
Tarkin, by contrast, had more a reserved and professional (not to mention arrogant) personality, which didn't even have to advertise how little he cared about the lives of innocents (blatantly going back on his word to spare Leia's home planet before learning he was tricked) all hardly ever raising his voice, politely telling the Death Star gunner to destroy the target when they're ready (though I doubt he ever means it, it'd be pretty silly to think the gunner would just get a cup of coffee after that). He's also more respectful to Vader despite technically outranking him, only really reining him in when he's about to kill another officer in front of him, and even then lets him have a few seconds since the guy was being a bit of a prick.
It seemed Ozzel probably got in Vader's bad graces before. Even then, we must assume when Vader said he brought them in too close, it means there is a close enough that he could have gone for. Ozzel was mentioned to have thought he could get the element of surprise if they did so except, as you mentioned, the Rebels already found the probe, which means Ozzel's move only forced them to deploy too close to the planet, leaving them vulnerable to the ion cannon. They could probably have intercepted the evacuation elsewhere in the system. For whatever reason, his move was considered unsound, to the point where the officer reporting to Vader felt he had to mention an excuse for why Ozzel wanted to do it.
Sorry, I saw this before going to bed and it kept me up at night.
I agree with you on Piett though, but I think it is made clear that he is unambitious, which is not a bad thing on the Executor. And because of that, he doesn't take risks like questioning Vader's judgment too much.
Funny that, George Lucas' main passion in filmmaking (besides camera work, he kind of felt he would be best as the cameraman for a while) was making avent-garde documentaries, and it kind of reflects in some scenes in Star Wars. In the original cantina scene, none of the aliens are shot to look especially out of the ordinary, they're just a mix of people in the local seedy watery-hole from different worlds than our own. And in the scene where Obi-Wan feels Alderaan's destruction, it is initially shot as a normal room scene (Luke training, the droids playing holo-chess, and Obi-Wan watching on).
It was in Empire that the style of the film editing changed (since some scenes weren't shot for the editor's benefit, but for the director's, Kershner, vision).
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