Maybe DC is planning some Batman line relaunch later in the year and they wanted to move King off the main Batman book to start fresh with a new #1 and new creative team. So if they relaunch a bunch of Bat books then maybe the Ric garbage will end sooner. I can't imagine that DC would continue the Ric stuff into a newly relaunched book, but maybe they would given how they have clung to this awful editorially mandated story for so long already. Tough to say as I don't really trust them in making good decisions anymore.