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It's a perfect storm of all the following.
>everyone knows the real reason is because they want to keep reusing the same villains without having to come up with resurrections stories, so them trying to justify it as story-driven pisses people off
>in contrast with most other characters' rogues, the majority of Batman villains are just psychos who legitimately go out of their way to kill and torture random people regardless of Batman himself, so it's not as if a few deaths are collateral, they're the goal and they're constant and numerous
>other popular all-ages superheroes like Spider-Man and Superman just never mention the no-kill rule or try to justify it, it's just a thing that's not brought up, or because their stories are more fantastical they do kill here and there and the villain comes back again
>Batman himself wants to be gritty and broody, with his stories being all about the harsh streets and spooky vampire serial killing torturers, but he himself acts like out of a Saturday Morning Cartoon while being part of a slasher or procedural, which makes him a direct contrast with other characters of the genre (Punisher, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Spawn, Crow, etc) and makes him all the more annoying
>instead of at least ignoring it, they double down on it and pretend that it's some 3deep5u characteristic and constantly bring it up, to the point where even if you wanted to ignore it you can't
They want Batman to be both edgy and broody and all heckin realistic, but also fun and whimsy and all-ages and everything inbetween. It's just retarded, and the more they try to defend it, the worse it gets.