I agree with you here.
Too many complaints about everything. People here blame the 1 or 2 outlier models, namely old hag supermodels who emerge once in a blue moon out of retirement and 3 VS models who emerge out of their catalogs of monopolizing the magazine industry when in fact, its Lara-Natasha-Daria + a sprinkling of Anja and Freja who's been in every magazine for the past 5 years. And nothing against model class 2005-2006, in fact they are my favorites and they are very well loved for a very good reason, but old supermodels and VS models are not really the reason why your favorite newb cant get a cover. Maybe you and the other 5 people with 5 alternicks who stalk their threads and their moms are the only ones who care about them. Or maybe your name is not steven meisel. Okay end of rant.
Nevertheless, I am not a VS fan and have always thought of Alessandra as not high fashion enough too, but her handlers slowly put her back into our stream of consciousness last year by having her show up in magazine edits and have good runway appearances, thus reminding people that she can do other stuff other than VS.