It could be interesting to think what the alternative would have been if fans had voted the other way. Would Jason have been crippled? Stayed in the Mideast doing charity work? Hunted down diplomat's sons suspected of rape? Turned to a life of crime? Disappeared from continuity like Aunt Harriet until someone had a better idea? We'll never know.
I think we'd have seen this as a transformational experience for Jason, he's have quietened down, become better at research whilst he recuperated, maybe become the resident Bat-computer-whizz, until he took to the streets again, as a more cautious, more obedient Robin. Pretty much exactly like Tim, in other words.
In retrospect, that resurrection was probably also tied to the planned death of Dick Grayson in Infinite Crisis,
Possily, but I dunno, I think the two events are rather far apart.
which would have opened up a space in the Batman family for Jason: the new Nightwing. Much of Brothers in Blood makes no sense unless we imagine Jason in Dick's place. (The rest simply makes no sense at all.)
Ditto the first Outsiders arc OYL, which is also atrocious, but has a Dick Grayson that even Winick's writing shouldn't have screwed up THAT much, but makes a bit more sense with Jason (such as threatening Superman with Green K if he didn't back off and leave them to the morally grotesque decision making, a move Dick would sooner chew his own leg off than consider), though again, only in SOME scenes.