If I remember the story correctly, it gets weird even before Bruce gets involved. As someone described above, every guy is standing in her way. Like, doesn't it even start with the idea that she can't be a cop or in the FBI? Which an intelligent woman like Babs would have no problem getting into. Everyone is against Babs except the OTT manipulatively controlling Batman, because even if he's playing with her mind and making her prove himself and making it All About Him, he's the one who's going to let her fight crime. Defiance becomes her main defining trait. In the original she reads to me like a normal, independent adult who does what she thinks is best because that's what adults too. Here she's an adolescent and everyone's her dad who let her do what she wants.