"I think I've read that this is Drusilla's last on-screen appearance in the Buffyverse? Is this so? "

Perhaps "democratization" isn't precisely the most apt term. Giles' rebuke to Quentin in "Helpless" — "You're waging a war. She's fighting it. There is a difference" — is precisely the issue Triangle raises about the distribution of power. In choosing not to be the instrument of the Council (and in pointing out…