Biblatex APA6 Natbib - No ampersand with citealp

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When applying biblatex with natbib and apa6 there is a weired difference between using citep (citet) and citealp regarding the ampersand when citing multiple authors. With citep (citet) there is an ampersand (&) as required, however with citealp there is an "and". Does anyone know how one can apply the citealp option with ampersand?
MWE:
documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}
usepackage[backend=biber,natbib=true,style=apa6,isbn=false,doi=true,eprint=false,uniquename=false]{biblatex}
addbibresource{references.bib}
usepackage{filecontents}

begin{document}
    citep{Lee.2011b}
    
    citealp{Lee.2011c}
    
    begin{filecontents}{references.bib}
    
    @article{Lee.2011b,
        author = {Lee, Jeoung-Hak and Kim, Hyun-Duck and Ko, Yong Jae and Sagas, Michael},
        year = {2011},
        title = {The influence of service quality on satisfaction and intention: A gender segmentation strategy},
        pages = {54--63},
        pagination = {page},
        volume = {14},
        issn = {1441-3523},
        journaltitle = {Sport Management Review},
        number = {1},
        abstract = {}
    }
    
    @article{Lee.2011c,
        author = {Lee, Jeoung-Hak and Kim, Hyun-Duck and Ko, Yong Jae and Sagas, Michael},
        year = {2011},
        title = {The influence of service quality on satisfaction and intention: A gender segmentation strategy},
        pages = {54--63},
        pagination = {page},
        volume = {14},
        issn = {1441-3523},
        journaltitle = {Sport Management Review},
        number = {1},
        abstract = {}
    }
    end{filecontents}
    
        printbibliography

end{document}

moewe · Answer

Since biblatex's natbib compatibility module is just a very thin wrapper bolted onto biblatex, I wouldn't expect it to work completely like natbib with all styles, especially with more specialised ones.
citealp is defined in terms of cite. But for biblatex-apa6 (and biblatex-apa) it would make much more sense to define it in terms of nptextcite, so that's what you can do.
documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}
usepackage[backend=biber,natbib=true,style=apa6,isbn=false,doi=true,eprint=false,uniquename=false]{biblatex}
addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

makeatletter
renewrobustcmd*{citealp}{%
  @ifstar
    {AtNextCite{AtEachCitekey{defcounter{maxnames}{999}}}%
     nptextcite}
    {nptextcite}}
makeatother

begin{document}
  citep{sigfridsson}
    
  citealp{sigfridsson}
    
  printbibliography
end{document}

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