is alice bait or will she be playable...?

After rewatching Sumeru's archon quest these days, I think it's safe to say that they've improved Paimon a lot. She was at her absolute worst back then in terms of repeating literally every new information that is just said, sometimes almost word for word
Current Paimon is much more tame, but this often goes unappreciated by the playerbase, probably because they forgot how bad it really was