If you're at all interested in how things transpire behind the scenes, Dan recently spoke on it and it's been released as per the Word Balloon podcast. It was really interested to hear how Jurgens pitched Jon to Didio as "this is the future! How, I don't know, maybe they put him in a rocket and send him off and we create a new DC Universe?!" Combined with how they didn't know what to do after Death of Superman outside a general theme of "world without," it's disheartening to know that DC is basically doing these big changes on passionate whims.
Granted, both are now watershed moments for the character (dying, having a son) that lead to some good (and some bad) stories, but damn if that doesn't confirm a suspicion.
Apparently he also admits he knows nobody likes Ric, but I'm not that far in.