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Joel's comment made about Alastor, Rosie, etc. made me think. The reason people don't give a shit that they're terrible people is because the show doesn't.
Valentino is fairly quickly established to be a rapist, but what's the worst thing characters like Angel, Pentious, and Alastor do over the course of the entire season? All I can think of is Angel goes on a drug binge in episode 4 before getting a pep talk from Husk, Pentious spies on behalf of the Vs for all of ten minutes, and even if Alastor is all menacing and has nearly a blank check deal with Charlie, I doubt his likely betrayal will have him do something that will make the audience hate him like him killing a major protagonist.
Even Rosie and Carmilla haven't done anything that would cause the audience to root against them, like at least establish Carmillia is a boss who treats her workers like shit instead of her only major trait being "I love my daughters and must protect them!"
For a show allegedly about redemption, you think it would take notes from the pilot where Angel was established to be a major douchebag who gleefully took part in violent street wars.