Well, now Whedon appears to be trying to pitch a reboot of the series. LOL. I'm curious to see how that works out. He has a passionate and entrenched female fan base for Buffy that doesn't like him all that much.

Christos Gage and Rebekka Issacs in S10 do finally address the Buffy/Spike relationship in a way that I'd been dying to see and never had. They also explore Spike's relationships with Dawn and Xander a bit more. But in S10 -- Buffy and Spike have an actual conversation about what happened in Season Six and why it happened.