Well said.

It must be the company I keep, but I can't imagine that you will get too many arguments against this premise. Buffy is the Queen of Judgment Calls. In her professional life*, she often makes calls that doesn't initially seem like the most effective, but they almost always turns out to be right. Keeping Spike around wasn't the easiest choice she could have made, but she looks for the right one, not the easy one.

*In her romantic life, the judgment calls could use a little work.