DH cares about money, that's about the gist of it. Joss could have almost literally used paper to clean up after his cat, called it a script and they'd have ate it up. You can tell there is no real editor working on this. Right from the start with the Warren screw-up. Even with the sales tank, it still makes numbers just because of the canon label. 30-40K is still respectable for a comic. Sucks for them because if it were any good, it'd probably still be selling twice that.

I don't know what to make of Joss. He's extremely passive-aggressive and, let's face it, straight-up lies a hell of a lot. I don't know if he hates the series now, but it's possible. I'm fairly certain he dislikes Buffy and Angel, or at least that they're so widely liked. He couldn't get anything made for characters he does like, such as Willow. It kind of shows up in the books. Willow, Xander and Faith all have something resembling a character arc. Buffy and Angel, it's pretty much issue after issue depicting them as cold, selfish, stupid and childish with no explanation why.