Good.
Whedon lives in a protective bubble, where his rabid fanbase floods TV executive mailboxes with nonsensical tripe about how important 'this' television show is.
It's on Friday? DVR. And they were including those numbers and it still did not produce well enough to maintain.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a nice little show which was cute fodder for those growing up...and still is. But even that series has become marginalized in correspondence to the high artform of television these days. The Sopranos? The Shield? Mad Men?
This might have had some room to operate, but even big networks are putting together quality shows like NCIS. Whedon's writing isn't brilliant; it's different and quirky. And the show he was writing? Wasn't worth keeping around just because he was writing it.
At the end of the day, the world of television has changed quite a bit since Whedon's first romp through. He needs to adapt.