pull whoever you want but play it smart

Yeah basically this, it's okay to spend some primos on non-ayaka banners that you like, but don't spend ALL of it if you're trying to get Ayaka.

For example, when Zhongli's banner dropped i had around 95 wishes saved for Ayaka, but Zhongli is broken and my pity was at 50 i decided to try my luck with the soft pity to see what i could get, in my case it was a win/win no matter what i got, either i got Zhongli or i had a guaranteed Ayaka for my next pity, however i only allowed myself to go to soft pity, i would not go to hard pity for this, i ended up getting lucky and getting Zhongli in like 20 pulls so i still had plenty of primos left to keep saving for Ayaka, but i wouldn't have done this had my pity been really low or at 0.