Yes exactly.
A few years ago, Julie Dove won a contest to appear in one episode of Days, and she was filmed but her scene was entirely cut. She posted the deleted scene on her social media. (edit: the show uploaded the cut scene onto Days social media, and then she quoted it.) A year or two later they hired her to appear for a short scene as one of Sloan's legal clients, and that scene aired. She posted then about being happy/grateful, etc. Then later they hired her to be in a scene with Li. But basically nothing else. She was still glad to be hired. Then more recently Ron wrote her into the current Li storyline. So even if her current storyline is stupid, I think she's just grateful for some work, especially since she was originally supposed to be in only one episode.