Right, but there was still conflict. Robin's later years, no matter what medium, always seem to involve a conflicted relationship with Batman, and even in the non-flashback bits of Robin's Reckoning, you've got Batman being a dick in that acts-like-a-dick-but-it's-all-because-he-cares kind of way.
He doesn't tell Dick what's going on with Zucco, and just shuts him out, leaving Dick to get all pissed and rebellious. That's what I mean about Bat-dickery going hand-in-hand with what I have now decided I like to call "Bat-loveliness".