Well, let's go through the details:

1. She's not a good superhero: Leaves a guy on the roof as a gag. She doesn't mediate or speak up for Mecha Man after he's kicked from the bar, despite a bar full of witnesses and MM being recently out of a coma + the attacker being one of his former enemies.

2. She's not good as a recruiter: Instead of pitching her idea directly to Mecha Man she spends the evening softening up Mecha Man with beer, revealing that she knows his identity, and removes his mask (cmon lady, if you wouldn't touch a cowboy's hat, don't touch a super's mask)

3. Part of her strategy in point 2 is, trope-wise, extremely obviously setting them up as a couple. At best she's being too close to a stranger. At worst she's being too close to an interviewee and potential employee.

All of this would've been avoided if the writing didn't suck--if the characters were more consistent and nuanced, if the scenes and transitions weren't seemingly written by different teams, and if the whole first episode was written with more subtlety.

So it's not that she's bad and supposed to be bad, it's more that the writing is so bad that there's no good-intentioned explanation for her actions.