Teres

SCSF: I have no idea! They are only with five, after all, so making decisions should be something they could do together, even without meeting in person.

He doesn't even make any important decisions. They already all know what they're expected to do, and who nominated him leader anyway? And why him? He's hardly leadership material.

Neither do I... It seems that they have low-level magical abilities in just about everything, but Douglass has not confirmed that, which she could easily have done.

She never bothers to define what powers people have and what the limits are. It just gets worse and worse with Axis and you know who, who are just randomly able to use their magic and other abilities that appear without notice to suit the author's whims of the moment. Most of the time we don't even know how they know they can do whatever it is. They just can. Somehow. It's such a massive failure of world-building.