I am a fan of the Snyder/Capullo run, but with the announcement of Metal it just seems like the scale is getting bigger and bigger to the point that it almost seems like a throwback to the 50's sci-fi Batbooks. Big "dinosaurs and lasers" stories seem like they would fit Superman, the Flash and even Shazam better, but I feel like they are getting retrofitted onto Batman because the character has been such a sure seller in the last few years.
In some ways, Brubaker and Rucka had gotten the scale down so small in the early 2000s to the point where Batman himself had been kept on the periphery (in Gotham Central). Morrison blew up the scale again, and I feel like it's just kept growing from there till now. It's especially annoying when there are three main bat books, and a story where Bane breaks into the Batcave and defeats all of villains in Arkham Asylum feels relatively small. Nerd culture in general has also generally equated "more, louder, brighter, bigger" with "better" in the last few years.
Do you guys miss the smaller stories? Do you think they're ever coming back?