Bad writing is bad writing. If an author does something stupid and wrong, it's stupid and wrong. Now, the lovely thing about comics is that, sometimes, another author can come along later and invent a whole new story to try to redeem the prior stupidity, and sometimes that's awesome and leads to whole new epic levels of sense and goodness. But that doesn't make the initial stupid any less stupid, or somehow legitimize stupidity that hasn't yet been retconned.
You know, I was gonna write a rebuttal to the "we can't unrefrigerate Barbara!" thing, but here you've gone and made the point for me perfectly. Thank you for that.