https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-backs-biden-in-shift-towards-center
She's figured out how to work with mainstream Dems and even some Republicans.
This article is two years old but still good:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-just-a-regular-old-democrat-now.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw
"Since taking office in January 2019, she has deferred to party leadership again and again on the issues that matter, even as she has made token gestures of resistance to solidify the illusion that she is a gadfly. And increasingly, she seems stung by criticism from the left to the point where she appears ready to simply embrace her party and its politics with open arms."
Primaries wouldn't have mattered if ranked choice was in the full national election. Other candidates could have run. Of course, this assumes the rise of other political parties.