I don't know if they didn't like it or just hated B/A fans. I can't imagine the kind of crap they must have received over the years from them. I don't think any of them had a particularly fond view of the relationship. Boring to write and so on.

I think Goddard might have liked them? I don't know why I think that, but I think that way. But then, I'm a fandom minority who never cared for him, so that might be my own brain putting distasteful things together.

I can't defend Fury's crap with the fandom and Spike fans, but I also think he might have been one of the only ones to talk back to Joss. Despite his own shortcomings as a writer, I don't see a lot of the garbage happening if he were there.