At the end game has to be played individually but yes support is definitely important.
Sana is a social being and likes roaming around having fun and imitating people, however the group she is in is limited in numbers and besides Asim other two are pretty serious types. She genuinely had a bond with Paras and got along with him, forget about the love thing that was fake but in the start she was interacting with Mahira Paras Shefali a lot.
Shukla is too suffocating. Anything she does, a remote conversation is untrustworthy? Though I don’t like him much I do believe he genuinely likes her and is trying to convince himself but in reality he is super jealous when she talks to anyone. Sorry but why shouldn’t she when group in the end will save Arti.
In his eyes their group shouldn’t interact beyond what is necessary with bahu group which at the end of the day is wrong as this a social game. In the last seasons too people had fights, I mean really bad ones and they were all sitting and talking later.
At the end she is putting on a show, I definitely believe that but ultimately it is harmless and entertaining.