Most who criticise The Batman didnt really watch it after the first season, those more forgiving stuck with it and found it was starting to improve, especially in the second season, and by the fourth season it was pretty much ready to become it's own thing...had they stuck with the format and cast of the first two seasons and kept Yin and Bennet around, but instead they shot themselves in the foot bringing in Batgirl. Why was Gordon even brought into the series when he was portrayed as such an idiot? It was supposed to be a kind of "Year One" for the character, where nobody trusted him, not even the police. I guess portraying the Gotham Police Department as opponents didnt leave a good impression on "real" departments
It took the DCAU team to restore the series to what it was proving to be in season two, but season five suffered because of the "Brave and the Bold" backdoor pilot concepts they decided to test to see if a new team-up series would prove succesful, and it did.
The "great and almighty Bruce Timm" will never be topped in some people's eyes, and any attempt to try will be disregarded by unobjective trolls with nothing better to say but "thiz suckz" and not give any reasons for it