Yeah, that was kind of my point. The AzBats era showed fans to be "careful, what you wish for" so that you actually wanted Bruce to get better and beat Azrael down. Then he became a dick again but still ...
That may be what Marvel has going here with Logan/Daken. I'm sure they're aware that even Wolvie fans are tired of him being in every single Marvel book, so they give us Daken instead as a response. Maybe.