I liked Nightwing up until the issue after this - although, naturally, I had some problems with the rape. Otherwise, it was a decent story, with great art (Zircher is one of the better Nightwing artists; he can do acrobatics really well).
Of course, it goes downhill from here, but up until this point? Yeah, I dug it. It being my first DCU title might also help in that regard, but still.
As to Dick's friends and family helping out - yeah, that's true, and I loved Wally dropping by Babs' place to talk about what was happening with Dick, but in the context of it, it doesn't seem that weird. The stuff with Haley's Circus happens, then the fire and after that, well, Dick's pretty broken up, after which the events in these scans almost immediately happen. Blockbuster didn't let up on Dick and really got under his skin. In that sense, it really is Born Again Redux.