That is a really nice scene from Robin's Reckoning. But I'd say there were still lots of moments in the later DCAU series that showed his non-dickery.
Like that episode with the Flush gang in JLU, and he's told he has to kill the little girl in order to save everyone. So what does he do? He let's her know what's happening, and as she's going to die anyway, he holds her hand and sits with her until the end.
Bat-dickery and Bat-loveliness go hand-in-hand, IMO, but the dickery level rising over the years makes sense for DCAU Batman. It seems an unavoidable trajectory somehow, what with the way his relationship with Dick evolved over the years. (And in Batman Beyond, you've got all the Return of the Joker business to factor into all his bitterness and push-people-away-ness.)