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jr is making shit as he goes

Yes and no. It is very likely that they never had a fully flesh out concept to work with in the first place and developed\patched things as they went along. Which is why a lot of the thing never fully make sense.

But I can't really blame JR, it is not like GOT where they started with an established world over decade, 5 novels, short stories and much Q&A; nor did they have a lot of budget to work with just Pilot could easily tank. And overall they are pretty good, I think.

my guess is nightbloods are stronger than an average person, thats why they have the flame

It is possible, but all we know for certain is that Becca gene therapy prevent ALIE2 implant rejection and that she was able to take off the hazmat suit despite the radiation so presumably it also gave her radiation resistance.

at the end of s1 there were a lot of grounders, if you remember

I remember S1 pretty well, and I loved the grounder organization up to the final battle. But my problem is just with the numbers, we had the hundred so they sent several hundreds for effect, then in S2 they upped that and sent several thousands, so obviously they had to make Polis bigger to sustain them... so we end up with tens if not hundreds of thousands of people if even few of other clans rival Tree crew in population in just 95 years!

Which is crazy because I assume that all grounders are descendant of Becca's gene therapy, since the idea of consistent rapid evolution of the population in such a short time, that persisted across so many people is just silly. But then its just as silly that there hundreds of thousands of descendant in 95 years..