YA Fantasy as of late - boring, repetitive and cliché

Is it just me or is YA fantasy going to the dumps lately? 

The sudden deluge of vampires, werewolves, angels and fae has been flooding the bookshelves of the YA genre for a couple of years now, ever since the release of Twilight, the merit of which, I frankly don't see. It might have a couple of paranormal creatures which were, at that time, rather rare to find, but it certainly isn't deserving of the awed reviews it gets.                       

 There are some major, mutual characteristics in all YA fantasy that just rubs me the wrong way :

          

1. All the aspiring authors out there seemed to have received some great inspiration from this utterly boring book (Twilight) and soon we'll see similar books flooding in. All with a new, mysterious person in town (and 8 times out of 10, the town is some tiny little nothing in the middle of nowhere) towards whom the protagonist feels some indescribable, all-encompassing pull and said cryptic individual decides to snub and recognize him/her whenever convenient. Some find this alluring. I find it rather lordly, uppity behavior. Again, I blame it all on Stephenie Meyer.  Examples of this all too popular situation can be found in Evermore, Fallen, Evernight, Shiver, Beautiful Creatures and more recently Unearthly and Falling Under.

2. It just doesn't stop there. If the new-kid-in-town and minor snubbing of protagonist wasn't enough, we have to have the poor person ignored and desolate and longing (and a million other depressing emotions) for a whole book, just to remind the reader that the protagonist has no spine and courage whatsoever and leans heavily on the other individual. Just as in New Moon. And in Fallen. And in Blue Moon. And in Iron Daughter. Need I go on?

Obviously, all is forgiven in the end, with no apologies except some mild guilt from the ignorer. We can't have our compliant characters showing defiant emotions now, can we? Indignation? Anger? Offense? No way.

3. And thereafter comes the half-faerie daughters. The poor kids who were left in the human world because of the "dangers" of the Faerie courts. It would be extremely  foolish of us to assume that the all-powerful Fae king or queen could protect their kid from the lowly lackeys of the court. Of course not. I won't even get started with the perpetual state of bitter conflict between the Courts. Harmony and friendship? Forget that, peaceful co-existence? Eons away.

               The only exception to this was The Iron Queen where the Seelie and Unseelie Courts united against the threat of the Iron army. Quite miraculous, but it added a nice touch.

4. Another huge problem I have with YA fantasy lately is love. The two characters see each other and are instantly struck by the sheer beauty, strength and deep dark eyes of the gorgeous new kid in town. Pfft. Rubbish. You can't be in love with somebody about whom you don't know the first thing. Of course, said new kid knows absolutely everything about you. Normally, this would evoke a healthy amount of suspicion. Not in YA, apparently.Can you say "stalker"?

5. The main protagonist is - at any given point in the book - torn between two love interests. Books with strong, independent, unromantic characters are practically extinct. Is it so difficult for two people to have a platonic relationship??