Well at the moment she's most likely going to jail for fraud, so that should keep her busy for awhile. But yes, it was fucking ridiculous and a waste of everyone's time. I do think they cut some of her material - there were shots of her in the trailer that did not make it into the show and which seemed to belong to a scrapped subplot - but the book it's based on also treats her character horribly, so I don't think anything short of a radical re-imagining would have saved it.