There's a comic arc where Batman tries feverishly to get rid of his fortune not through philanthropy but really by selling and giving away everything. The system is so rigged that he is still stupidly filthy rich by the end of it all and the systemic inequalities and corruption make it so that all his money is being squandered and used to further abuse victims instead of helping. So he ends up beating up people in a black suit anyway, as the only real way to fight corruption.

Also, there's a literal supernatural curse over the city anyways. It will always be evil and corrupt.

Yeah although usually it's Superman they're obsessed with anyway. Usually they like to complain that the current iteration is too woke, even though it's exact same character from the 1960s

Batman can be viewed as a violent force of the status quo and if you fry your brain with post 9/11 propaganda you could even get the stupid idea that this is a good thing. Looking at you, Frank Miller.
But the idealized or, to be even more pretentious, platonic idea of Batman is everything but.

Gerry Conway (RIP) literally took back over the book specifically to have Punisher threaten a cop for using his symbol. "You don't do what I do. Nobody does. [...] If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I'll come for you next."

Maybe they listened to one of the covers that seemingly obliviously changes the line to "the shrine of your light"