I supposed this may be something we'll have to agree to disagree on, but even considering your points here, I still feel uncomfortable with the implications made by such an assessment.
But at the time, whenever she'd go off on that tangent, Batman was rarely shown to reply in any meaningful way. It's one of the reasons it took a long time for me to like the character.
Well, perhaps there is room for a bit of the pseudo father/daughter relationship that is sometimes implied between them to explain that: Huntress rants about how Batman doesn't know what he's doing and that she knows better than him, etc, which does come off a bit as a rebellious teenager kind of thing (albeit with subject matter not usually common to parents and teenagers). IDK, I really haven't read enough of the earlier interactions between the two characters to have that firm a grasp of Batman's reactions to her. I just have the impression that he was usually pretty down on her and her methods.