^Arai-sensei is absolutely not baiting with the green yuri, it's incredibly obvious. She has a history of making yuri manga, she's into queer culture (including Western media), she's almost certainly sapphic herself, and she's tagged some of her social media posts with Mitsuki and Aya with #wlw.
This shouldn't even be a conversation, but this constant paranoia about bait is poisoning yuri discourse and spilling into real world consequences.