Not everyone is a solider, but they think they're cut out to be one. And I'm somehow expected to treat them as I would a Slayer, while holding their hands and making allowances for the fact they're not, while not letting them realize I'm doing that.
Recently I had a situation where I had half the people telling me to make one choice, and half were telling me to make the opposite one. I made a call and I stand by it, but there was no way I could make everyone happy. And the more I tried to explain my decision, defend it, the angrier the people I'd said no to got. And I know if I'd made the opposite choice, the same thing would have happened from the other side.
You had Cordelia who grew up on the Hellmouth, Wes a trained Watcher, Gunn who grew up fighting demons and Fred who survived Pylea. Right now I got so many people screaming their opinions at me, I can't even hear them any more.
I can't walk away. Even for a little while, I just can't do it.