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Which none of the others in the line so far are doing.

Eh, it's Batgirl. I don't see it as being insulting. Batgirl as a character is another in DC's long fascination with multiplying their essential characters in as many different forms as possible. Which I guess was a good idea before continuity made all these fan-pros want to justify their existences instead of letting them fade away into obscurity.

That said, I'd rather have Batgirl than a crippled Babs Gordon any day.

"Eh, it's Batgirl" is precisely the kind of thinking that gets us Barbara in a wheelchair.

No, not really. The kind of thinking that gets Batgirl in a wheelchair is when somebody believes the character, a knockoff, is important enough as a character to have to be justified existing. Because of the justification, a need to explain why there should or shouldn't be a Batgirl, Batgirl ends up being taken way more seriously than she should be.

I don't mean to denigrate Batgirl's original artist/designer and "product placement" existence, so to speak. I've never understood why there needed to be a Batgirl, a Batwoman.

Why wouldn't Barbara Gordon, walking and beautiful, retired from being a Batgirl ie a convention of the Silver Age, solving crimes as a cop or private eye in Gotham, have been enough?