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"Or the writers were just crap at showcasing her talents"

I have to disagree with you there.

For a start, if she wasn't ultra-hyper-talented, she wouldn't be having anything to do with them in the first place.

And secondly, again, it's about context. You could be the most skilled computer programmer in the Universe, but your talent is going to be useless when a giant starfish drops out of the sky, or whatever. You know, the story isn't suggesting she's talentless or useless, it's just, for JLA-level threats to reality, you're gonna want the physically-strong members taking the lead in the fight, not the programming chick. Who is very smart and powerful in her own field -- and we're not saying otherwise -- but she's not the person to call when you need someone to beat up Despero.

Thirdly, as another poster pointed out -- Morrison's JLA was story-driven, it was all big and loud and melodramatic and The End Of The World every five minutes. Whether it's a good or a bad thing (and I was a *huge* fan), there just isn't a lot of room for indepth character development in the mean-time. If you wanted character-pieces on Barbara Gordon, go read "Birds of Prey" or one of the 20 Bat-books published every week. JLA, at that time, wasn't about that. And I'm not gonna fault the title for that. The title wasn't designed that way, and fair enough.

Having said that, yes, with the mess that "Justice League of America" has become since the reboot, I'm glad Oracle (and a lot of other people) have nothing to do with it anymore.