Well, technically after Bruce Jones we got Marv Wolfman, who prodeeded to make Dick a nicer, much more admirable person again, but whose Nightwing was a bit of a chump, and served as far too much of a convenient target for Wolfman's new pet character, the Vigilante, in a story arc which was severely curtailed leading to no payoff whatsoever.
Then we got two months of Fabian Nicieza making Dick several shades of awesome; Batman - "You hacked the JLA Transporter codes?" Nightwing - "You can scold me later, I look forward to seeing the proud expression beneath your disapproving glare"
THEN we got Tomasi and the world was sunlight and daffodils for far too short a time...