"Amanda's profile is somewhat misleading as it suggests she was capable of creating those things herself, which she really wasn't. John was typically responsible for trap design and Hoffman, having experience with designing his own traps, helped in that regard. Amanda usually served as the fetcher, because John had Hoffman to do most of the heavy lifting in terms of setting things like the the Angel Trap up, as I believe that it was a plot point that detectives believed John had another accomplice besides Amanda because the thought it was unlikely that she was strong enough to help him with set-up."
You have a fair point, though she isn't unimpresive physically, as she is shown overpower athlete level characters. The plot point does seem to point at her being able to lift less than say Hoffman or John in his prime (but at this point he was getting rather weaked by sickness so iirc Strahm had pointed that out). Thing is Amanda not lifting people doesn't mean she doesn't have any idea how to make traps, as John did have her so she could take over his work when he died. She is likely less than Hoffman, Kramer, and Nelson, but not unimpresive. She still would have access to already created traps. Thing is she has such a short list of traps she had any influence in so she is kinda screwed in some situations. I mean, she doesn't have shotguns doors or hallway, no bombs, etc. She does have a gun though, as well as a, while slow, potent posion that will cause the Pig to have issues in the fight.
Immortality (Type 8), if accepted, would make this unfair though. Think survivors have some type of immortality for iirc, they can't die..at least being resurrected or something. Shown in the trailer and in the line "Death is not an escape". I could be very wrong with this point, as I often am.
