A while back, Gail Simone said "I miss Gail Simone ... I think she was a huge influence on the bat-verse, and she doesn't get credit for it."
I agree, and I miss her too.
Was her Nightwing run good? Not really, no. It had its moments of genuine greatness IMHO, but it clearly had its moments of genuine suck too (although, as Gail and others have pointed out, there were really stupid editorial decisions being handed down to her, apparently making a bad situation even worse).
But you know what? She wrote some books I adore. She wrote what I still say are some of the best Batman Family books ever written. And I think it's absolutely tragic that people focus almost exclusively on her worst work, when she did so much great stuff.