To kinda keep on the "DC is doing too much" tangent, this was a decent interview with Tom King, which includes several examples of how DC editorial, in particular Dan DiDio, influenced, and many times overruled, the direction he wanted to take.
The one that really blew my mind is the story of DiDio reading about the death of Alfred from an LCS and calling King to tell him that he wanted Alfred to stay dead. What. In. The. Actual. fork...
Gonna listen to this later, but what you've said just reinforces my idea that DiDio has some weird hangups/tendencies that almost seem Vince McMahon-like in their inexplicableness and rigidity.