Those are all good points! And the worst day thing is new to me!

He got a lot of criticism for not putting Xander and Buffy together

omg whyyy? Just because he was the only male in the group? Ugh.

And they did have the evil boys (omg they had a name but I forgot) as a Big Bad in the second-to-last season, didn't they? They had incel written all over them, too.