Good point! Not every story needs to be a morality play, and teenagers are allowed to act like teenagers. Which means emotionally immature and confused.

I will confess to not reading any of the Twilight books. But I finally got around to watching the last three films (someday, my library will have the first in) and they're none of them as bad as the mockers say they were. Nor is Bella. She's not really my type of character, but I don't dislike her at all. (I do love Alice and Rosalie, though.)