Someone With Mass wrote...
Yeah. It depends on WHERE and WHEN you put your squadmates in cover.
Sitting in the same spot will ultimately get everyone killed.
When the Combat Drones distracts, I'm relocating. When the Flashbang goes off and stuns everyone, I'm relocating.
If you want your squadmates to survive, well, make them do so. When a squadmate survives because of the sheer amount of hitpoints, I think that's a bad design, because it doesn't make the squadmates smarter to avoid hazards in the first place, it just makes them harder to kill.
Not to mention that most of the characters in ME2 were horribly balanced in terms of powers.
You're just being Mr. Butthurt that your waifu sucks ass at combat no matter where she is. I and Garrus always advance forward and take the flanks while Tali sits behind spamming combat drones. And she still dies due to her bumrushing the enemies or some random flanking enemy Garrus or I didnt take down. And they have AUTOMATIC weapons.
You just suck miserably at reading.