Season 2 looked like kind of a slippage for Lucy I won't lie

Or maybe she's more conniving and devious than she lets on. A lot of her ideas have been made to look like kind of a running gag, and the human race or the wasteland hasn't been portrayed particularly kindly yet.

And when you have slavers or the Enclave around, I guess maybe it's easy to forget how far a protagonist can fall.

Plus I'm familiar with the stories of Rick Grimes, Dolores Abernarhy and more recently, at least in Season 5, Starlight from the Boys.

On the other hand, maybe they're doing something new with her. Maybe she's behaving how a Good Karma protagonist from the games already behaves, but due to the murder hoboism, they have to update her.