She does have connections outside the X-Men, at this point more than any other New Mutant on Krakoa, since she's a teacher at Strange Academy.
On the subject of Savage Avengers, it was quite interesting to see Illyana decide to spare Sadurang even as Conan is yelling at her to finish him. In general I haven't liked just how fine she's been with killing in recent years. It used to be that she was willing to kill but only if necessary, and it's nice to see a return to that kind of characterization.