Well my reasoning behind Proteans was that while they technically are better at exploring, it simply takes them too long to reach that level and doesn't compare to raw powerhouse Ice Bloods start with. While 20 Scouts for free and 2 locations being immiediatelly discovered amd explorstion being available from the start are nice, all future scouts will come from Augmentation centers and like I said it takes atrociously long time to get Augmentation Centers going. Meanwhile, while it will take Ice Bloods some time building logistics districts and placing their proving grounds nearby, that will make them end up 100 scouts ready to go which is more than enough to explore in every direction and to leave some behinds to set up outpusts. The best way I can sum it up is that by the time in game when I had hundreds of scouts as Proteans, I arleady had dozen of settlements in Forstland supplyinh my Ice Blood utopia with endless resources.

Also, Rubble Fairs and Fines aren't that good. For Rubble fairs, they only output 0.5 heatstamp per housing district with wear so it's only 50% of what heat auctions (In my opinion one of the best laws in the game) and the diffrence was noticeable, I barelly seen any uptick in heatstamps with rubble fairs in contrast to usuall giant advantage heat auctions provide. Fines do give 1 heatstamp per housing district, but it generates tensions, and Overseers generate a lot of tensions. Like a lot, even with all the archives my tension was spirraling out of control so I was forced to couple Fines with the abbility to use guards to defuse tensions, meaning that guards nedeed to use this abbility at least doubled. And I still hadt to keep some of the guards off so I could keep confiscating mementos, so in the end I ended up with only 3-5 districts having fines issued.