(no comic spoilers please)
Since she can apparently turn anything into anything (as long as it’s not human/animal matter), why doesn’t she immediately turn all her enemies’ equipment into sand?
The Flaxans’ guns? Sand. Killcannon’s kill-cannon? Sand. Doc Seismic’s gauntlets? Sand.
She can apparently manipulate matter attached to her own person (e.g. changing her outfit), so why not others’?
Is there an in-universe reason for this, or is it a writing issue?
Seems like poor writing. One thing they could have done was give her transmutation powers a severe limit. Like she has to physically touch something to transmute it or maybe it takes like several minutes to actually transmute something so she’s open to attack. Either of those are better than her just deciding not to use it when she clearly could of as she’s used her transmute powers multiple times in season 2 especially and barely looked tired doing so.