She never saved against the Indura, she saved Monpiet and Derrierie at the risk of her own life.
The Archangels weren't in danger since Ludoshel didn't go all out as he stated himself.
Phase 1 Indura completely overwhelmed all of the AA lol
It was too late for Sar/Tar because they were already put down by Monspiet and if it wasn't for Elizabeth's spell pushing them away, they wouldn't have been able to regenerate back to full health and could've been killed.
And do you believe Ludoshel can take on two Phase 2 Induras? Flash just looks like it gives speed at the moment, which means nothing if he can't hurt Indura at Phase 1(as shown by his serious ark).
Case is all of the AA except Mael with sunshine even with graces are completely overwhelmed by Indura, and if it wasn't for Elizabeth's intervention they would've suffered serious injury or even death. There's a reason why Ludoshel, who despises Elizabeth wanted her assistance, which was even more emphasised of how calm he was when she was present compared to how distressed he was when she wasn't.
It's safe to say Elizabeth's intervention eliminated the risk of the AA's dying, so yes, she did save them.
And if she didn't agree to go with Estarossa and decided to put up with a resistance. the AA could've been killed because they couldn't stop 3C-Estarossa.
So yes, she did save them twice.
You can't deny it if we take all the manga as a whole.
And here's your problem.
Elizabeth Liones + Human Elizabeth without memories is a damsel in distress because the curse makes her weak and vulnerable, hence why Meliodas protects her.
But Goddess Elizabeth(the real Elizabeth) is not a damsel in distress, because she can actually defend herself and fight back if she wants to. And has does feats that the AA can't achieve.
1. Elizabeth is very inconsistent with her feats. One day she’s purifying indura and then the next she’s trapped in a regular ark prison
Agreed.
3. Mel has taken much greater damage and was still standing. For example Holy Sword Escanor wasn’t able to drop him immediately, yet her slap dropped him with no effort.
To be fair it wasn't a battle situation, so him being ''dropped'' is only because he didn't expect Elizabeth to 100% go for a slap that encompassed ark.
And I imagine, using ark (magic) will function differently against a physical attack that Escanor used.
4. Even when Goddess Elizabeth flaunted her magic the only thing that it really did was blind Ludoshel and it didn’t push him away.
IIRC - It illuminated the entire battlefield, pushed away Ludoshel/Indura and made them pay attention.
I mean, her flaunting her magic like that is something the AA have yet to do, or it's probably apart of the attack animation.
5. Elizabeth was worried that Ludoshel’s magic could override her purification, which means that his outputs must be somewhere near hers if we’re just going to assume that raw power had everything to do with purification
She was worried that he was going to disrupt her purification by trying to kill the Indura, which was something she didn't want.
Plus, how can we say that Ludoshel's output is at a similar level as Elizabeth's when she was able to make two phase 2 Indura's desperate whilst he couldn't scratch 1 phase 1 Indura?
Any worry about Ludoshel's magic would be because Elizabeth was holding the Indura at the threshold of being defeated (purified). Placing them at a vulnerable position would mean Ludoshel's magic, that didn't work before, would suddenly be effective now and could have the potential to kill or harm the Indura. This is probably the case because he wanted Elizabeth's help in killing them. Plus, Sariel/Tarmiel's little boost of light (ark) was suddenly effective now against Indura in conjunction with Elizabeth's light because she was once again the majority of the force holding them at the threshold of defeat, so she just needed a little push to finish them off, which Ludoshel was ready to capitalise on.
TBH I'm of the opinion that Elizabeth could've medium-high difficulty purified a Phase 2 Indura if it was a 1v1, and not a 1v2 - like how Meliodas pretty much wipes the Kings but would be defeated in a 1v2.
6. Estarossa effortlessly broke out of the ark. Regardless if you think it tried to hurt him, he still broke out
True, but he didn't do it effortlessly because:
-He had to use his darkness on his physical body, THEN move in such a way to break out of the ark bubble after he was pushed a fair distance away. So he had to use both his strength and magic together with some effort in order to be able to break out of the ark bubble, which to be honest, is one of Elizabeth's weaker abilities, as of current standings.
Side note, you call Elizabeth's biblical whale silly. Do you think it's a weak ability? It seems powerful considering you can use it for offensive, defensive and mobility purposes.And it's pretty huge/pretty too xd
7. Elizabeth probably did not intend to slap Mel with full force unless she’s a fan of domestic abuse. So the fact that she floored him without full force while Escanor couldn’t is a huge red flag
I wouldn't call it domestic abuse and it's not like Meliodas was an Angel in that situation too, since he just told her he doesn't love her anymore, which resulted in her retaliation of slapping him (with some effort too I imagine, since the intention is there to hurt him).
The difference between the Escanor/Elizabeth situation is:
-One is a battle and the other is not. So Meliodas isn't in the mental state of fighting someone (to the death I imagine)
-One he is 100% on guard and fighting whilst the other he is just talking.
-He actually told Elizabeth to slap him, because was probably not expecting her to do it, or if she did, not with ark. So he wasn't 100% on guard and ready to take it (not 100% off-guard since he was directly looking at her).
You can't really compare the situations considering one is a death battle and the other is an argument ending with a slap. If it was a death battle between Elizabeth and Meliodas (lol nakaba) and it ended with her doing with what she did, it would be huge, but it's not, so it's just a small feat, unlike what Escanor did which is what I would consider a huge battle feat.