The show hasn't even aired yet and I'm already mad about Lisa graduating!

I do think they completely missed the boat with her and that other strategies might have worked. (MIGHT have worked.) She got around the rules and the LCs the same way she has gotten around all other authority in her life. And they never did any testing on her to see what might generate her behavior, or even what her particular aptitudes might be - we know it isn't jewelry!
Not a success story for SO by any stretch of the imagination.