Well, attractiveness is subjective, i suppose. And, really it was mostly the comics which ramped that up to eleventy (with Redshirt #2, Dawn and Buffy falling over themselves to get into Xander's bed). And season 8 depicted Xander as some kind of american dream (yes, i reference Frank Zappa here). So, fanbois writing for fanbois, i presume. Narcissistic (or: the author wanking in his mind. With Jeanty's "art" as stimulus and the pen as condom).