I don't know if it's so much feeling that Buffy is right as... well, like in S7. We were apparently supposed to see many of her leadership decisions as wrong. But the backlash that the writers devised against this (kicking her out of her own house, having Faith's plan blow up [literally]) was so over the top and muddled that the whole thing came off as "Buffy is Buffy, and therefore right, even when she's wrong."