Right, that's why your first instinct is always to hit people. So rational.
We're all being taken from different points in time. Faith is the farthest ahead so far. I'm a little ahead of you, and you're a little ahead of Buffy. Ironically, you're coming from right around when the Senior Partners turned LA into a hell dimension, so you were in for something pretty similar to this either way. Maybe that'll give you a leg up when we get everyone home.