Hi!It's a very complex question you have raised here which certainly deserves a thorough discussion. I don't have time to develop much my thoughts about this subject, so I'll limit myself to one or two remarks:
One of the premises explaining the choice of "demons" as Buffy's ennemies was that JW didn't want to show a teenage girl killing people. From that point of view, the humanization of demons was an error considering that a) although they seemed to opt in season 5 for a more complex "worldview" they ultimately shied away from the questions it raised, b) it gives really unpleasant (to say the least) racist undertones to certain of the reactions of their characters towards demons (thinks about season 6 for example). So, IMO the problem, was not so much the humanization of the demons as the refusal to let go of the first premise, or at least to adress more clearly the problems it raised.
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One of the premises explaining the choice of "demons" as Buffy's ennemies was that JW didn't want to show a teenage girl killing people. From that point of view, the humanization of demons was an error considering that a) although they seemed to opt in season 5 for a more complex "worldview" they ultimately shied away from the questions it raised, b) it gives really unpleasant (to say the least) racist undertones to certain of the reactions of their characters towards demons (thinks about season 6 for example). So, IMO the problem, was not so much the humanization of the demons as the refusal to let go of the first premise, or at least to adress more clearly the problems it raised.