Cordelia's Saintification arc was so gradual and soul-sucking it's hard to pinpoint the exact point when I gave up on the character too. And WORD on the contrast between how they handled Wesley's character development as opposed to Cordelia's. I really just think the Ats writers generally didn't know how to write women (at least non-morally ambiguous women, because I enjoyed Lilah, their take on Faith and even *Harmony*, FFS!).