Others because it felt very fanboy - or that the comics were being directed towards a Warrenesque faction of the fandom (and they may not be wrong about that...)

Um, do you mean Whedonesque faction? If so, I would agree, though I have seen people on Whedonesque saying they don't like it/have gone off it.

I know of several people who stopped sometime after Wolves at the Gate, or during that arc.

Heh! That was the arc that made me decide to persist for a little longer, because I liked it. Xacula made me laugh. I so wish Dracula had stuck around. This comic desperately needs a character like that.

Mind you, that arc also contained MechaDawn, which I thought was silly fanboy pandering (more so than usual) and the torture!Yay! scene, both of which were rather offputting.

Do another poll.