Weird, how this "revelation" (obviously mean to please us Girl Wonderers...and it worked, though the ham handedness was not lost on us) makes Batman somehow both less and more of a dick.
It definitely worked for me. I have no problems pretending that it was meant to happen all along, because it fits a hell of a lot better than Steph as a corpse, Leslie as a selfish creep who ignored her physician's oath, and Bruce as a despicably evil bastard. When I first saw that, I half-expected Bruce to start off by saying, "How many times did I tell you not to wear the costume?!?1" instead of "Yes, you are welcome back. Let's head over to the cave, Alfred will want to see you." No, of course I didn't well up. That never, never happens.
Now I wonder whatever happened in Gotham Underground when someone in a Spoiler costume knocked Babs out of her chair, smacked Tim around, got KO'd by Wildcat, then woke up and escaped invisibly. Oh well, as long as it wasn't Steph, I guess.