Most useful to the Scooby gang: Andrew vs Xander

[Lyri]

That actually I think would have been cool to see on-screen. I mean it looked like SMG did well enough with the Buffybot, that would be wild to watch her act as a whole different 'person' inside her own body. When she portrayed Faith she still had a basis on which to build from, this would be totally new.. and the same time she could play a robot with her real self inside.

Yeah, I actually think I would like to see that.

Same here. As awful, horrific and despicable as that whole storyline was, it would have been something amazing to see onscreen.

 

[Fuffy]

Andrew also stole Buffy's body, transferred her consciousness into the body of a robot without telling her or anyone else, 'hid' her actual body in nightmare suburbia with a consciousness and mind that he created from scratch, which resulted in the 'new' Buffy rebelling and deciding that she was going to keep the body that wasn't hers and join the gang of evil Slayers, then kidnapped the real Buffy which almost resulted in both of them getting killed all because she liked being 'a superhero'. And he did all of this under the guise of 'protecting' Buffy. And instead of turfing him out, the gang and Buffy just move on like nothing happened. It's a horrible reaction and stance to have.

Did this happen in the comics ? Because I don't remember it…

Back to topic:
Xander was definitely more useful to the scoobies as he was the only thing keeping them together after high school.