Here's the link to the story over at Bleeding Fool that gives their take on the story.
tl;dr: DC is trying to do like Marvel did where they're pushing a newer, younger, more "diverse" version of the heroes, but with the same names as the old ones, in their crossover event "Future State".
I'll let you read the story if you want, but here's some highlights:
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Wonder Woman being replaced by a Brazilian woman
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Batman will also likely be replaced with a diversity hire
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From the promo art, it looks like The Flash is going to be replaced by a woman with prosthetic legs (I wish I was making this up)
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Aquaman is getting replaced by Kaldur'ahm from Young Justice
Now, granted, this is only supposed to be for a couple months, but it has all the markings of a SocJus shit-show. Sadly, all the specu-leeches that still exist in the comics world will still snap these things up like a fat kid on a tray of cupcakes because ZOMG FIRST APPEARANCE, but we all know how well that goes for the market.
RIP DC comics. You were supposed to be the savior, but you turned out to be just as corrupt as Marvel did.
It's not even going to be a six months thing. They're slating it for a two month takeover, and then the prior storylines will resume after that. They're basically bumping two months' worth of content on the calendar for a chance at a quick sales pop and to float a trial balloon to see if readers will bite on the new characters or if there will be backlash on it. They know that two months is the limit on sales bumps for new characters because everyone wants to grab the first issue of a new series or a character's first appearance, then sales numbers usually get cut in half for the second issue, and then in half again for the third issue. If they only run it for two then they miss the 3rd issue drop as well as being able to weather the storm on a potential blow-up.
What they're missing is the other general backlash over it being a huge shared world event. Sure, there will be some sales boosted from it, but overall readers have become more apathetic to "event" storylines and the required cross-buy to get the whole story.
Also, for what it's worth, I do recall there being a little bit of rumbling from the BB and Batgirl fans back in the day when they introduced Jaime or Cassandra, but you're right, eventually the storytelling won the readers over.
Hah I was talking about steph but Cassandra Cain is another great example. I also recall backlash but mostly stemming from how ted died at the hands of a nonsensical twist and for batgirl it was more bait and switching huntress. It's just that there was no pressitutes to kick the sexism Hornets nest.