I personally think she isn't even playing. She's just being her true authentic self and it's working for her. She lets her emotions AND her emotional baggage guide her. She's impulsive and she's very intuitive and no, I don't mean her predicting Himanshi's entry.
I feel if she did get in the game and started playing in a desperate need to stay in the game, it would show and that is when her negatives would start showing because then she'd be making sly moves which she hasn't yet. People are just reading too much into it and giving her too much credit for a game she hasn't even planned.
If anything, her being herself has actually helped other HMs more in giving them screen space, specially the ones who haven't been doing much at all.