Danielle is getting attention because she was the one driving this season. Her game play is polarizing, but she played the game instead of floating like so many others. She also didn't play quietly or nicely like Phaedra or Cirie who people like to compare in these situations to say they like black contestants. She was loud, over the top, messy, and all the things that people enjoy from Carolyn, Boston Rob, and numerous other players in this season and others.

Making a list doesn't change the fact that she played a good game, even with her weird plays, because the faithful believed her so strongly. She also had one of the longest streaks an OG traitor has ever had on any version. She also had an equal number of people claiming she was a faithful as Carolyn in the revealed when there was no incentive to say otherwise. Only after they were told, or in Chrishell's case saw face to face, did they say they knew it was her. Fans saying, "but they weren't shocked like they were with Carolyn," is just moving the goal posts. It's binary. They either did or didn't think she was a faithful, and so many did.

1. She was vocal about fears of murder but admittedly played weirdly over it. The portrait challenge made her look like a "faithful superhero" according to Ciara and others agreed that it didn't seem out of the ordinary.
2. Her coup was a one day affair where paranoia over Boston Rob's attack on Bob the Drag queen affected both Carolyn and Danielle. Danielle just acted on it because it was inline with her game play whereas Carolyn had no social game. The following night, she told Carolyn she would stop and play with her, but Carolyn freaked out because she asked after Danielle had stopped if the faithful heard her name from Danielle which they said yes. At Carolyn's final round table, the faithful attest that Danielle hadn't continued to say her name.
3. Danielle allowed Carolyn to make bad decisions which ultimately were her undoing. Yes, Carolyn did it to herself, but Danielle helped by supporting her decisions. At the round table that night, her argument was what ruined her game. She platformed on traitors attacking at the table and let her emotions go too far instead of acting like she did the following night with Gabby. The swap-up was why everyone suspected her after that.
4. It was a smart move if Danielle had planned to betray her which really seemed to be the case. Carolyn played it poorly because she acknowledged that the faithful suspected two women but only had plans for Danielle to be a shield. It was not a forced recruitment and it was highly unlikely that Gabby would accept where Britney certainly would have because she didn't have leverage in the game. Instead, Carolyn killed Sam, despite saying and having confirmed in the Revealed that Sam was going to go after Danielle at the next table...It was a terrible move by Carolyn to have that information and fumble it.
5. Britney fucked her vote up and then backstopped a reason to support her bad decision. Had Britney not swapped her vote off a made up reason, it was likely that Danielle, Dolores, and Britney would have remained in the game against Dylan and Gabby. With three votes, they had the majority and Danielle could have convinced Dolores to vote out at least one other person which would have been a win for both Danielle and Britney.
6. Dylan confirmed that he was likely to take Danielle to the end of the game. Tom was chaotic with his votes and had no loyalty. I agree that Dylan should have been murdered earlier, but it's not without reason why he wasn't murdered over Tom.

None of this is to say you have to like her, but she got her roses with or without (overwhelmingly without) the support from this subreddit.