Originally Posted by
bat39
Yeah, there definitely wasn't a cohesive plan beyond "Get rid of the Multiverse and doppelgangers". COIE was then used as a rationale for character reboots on a case-by-case basis - which is why Superman got a hard reboot while the New Teen Titans were still kicking around unchanged.
I don't think they even thought in terms of a 'reboot' for Batman, soft, hard or otherwise. The success of DKR probably got TPTB thinking that Frank Miller was onto something with this darker, grittier take on Batman, so they approached him to do Year One and gave him carte blanche continuity-wise. And then they had Year Two in 'Tec, and gave Jason Todd a new grittier origin after Year One was done in 'Batman'. While all this was going on, it was business in usual in books not actively telling one of these 'reboot' stories.