Oh no

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

He fixed the ice cream machine

X

His internal push-and-pull has always been about whether or not he would stay in the life at all, and any force that encouraged him away from Robin as a mantle was always external. (Although, I do want to also note that any time he quits or considers quitting, it always reinforces his decision to be a hero in the end via having that arc and continuing to make the decisions that he does, just quick sidenote.)

We also have a ton of proof, including his introduction itself, that he sees no contradiction or problem with having an adult Robin.

And thus, rather than "growing up", moving away from Robin specifically toward something else feels like "doing what other people tell you to".

It's not treating Tim as an adult with autonomy (in-universe, obviously he has no autonomy no matter what, he's a character). It's treating him like people treat children, and in a significantly worse way than even he was treated as a child on the hero side of things, since he actually had an unprecedented level of autonomy as Robin (Robin is, in fact, representative of an autonomy power fantasy in a lot of ways).

It's bending to other characters going "you don't know what's best for yourself, I do".

And while you can always write a character changing their mind (that was arguably what was done with Dick in the first place, and the idea of a universe where he just never stopped being Robin and there was only ever one is more than reasonable from the perspective of before they wrote him say the things he did later), but because of the history we do have with Dick, and the specific ways Tim has been contrasted with Dick on this subject, and it being way more clear how Tim did already feel about it, doing that with Tim now would read like support of the general "you'll grow out of it" mentality that a lot of people have toward young people with strong opinions about things.

For every person that wants Tim to stop being Robin, I will want him to continue being Robin twice as hard, on an exponential scale. (previous pinned post written verbatim as a link because it deserves the energy)

Tim and Symbols: The Lesser-Known Reason Why Tim Became Robin

The importance of Tim's first impression of Batman

Things Tim Drake Canonically Does During "A Lonely Place of Dying"

Tim is Intrinsically a Legacy Character

The only character that has had "a Robin" in the sense of "having a particular Robin that was special to them to look up to" instead of in the sense of "working with" is Tim, and that Robin is Dick

"Civilian" Tim during War Games, aka the post about why he can't stay that way

Another post with narration panels from the same issue "Who am I kidding?" emphasis

More about the concept of Tim being a civilian not being antithetical to him but realistically impossible for him to stay that way

Why Tim should be Robin for Marketing Reasons

Why Tim should be Robin for Queer Rep Reasons

Just some Personal Reasons that I Really Want Him To to be Robin as an Adult

The sassy surprised Pikachu post (with comic panels) because no one should ever be surprised if Tim comes back to being Robin repeatedly

Why Tim is the perfect character to actually stay Robin

Tim being Robin isn't a problem and doesn't need solving

my city now

Not about Robin:

Tim DID want to be adopted, actually

Tim References: Schools (list of every school he has canonically gone to, with names of his friends and some other additional info)

Tim and Money (aka how rich is he, actually?)

Jack is a particular type of New Money parent

People who think Tim has killed people "I can't read" meme

The "Tim Drake is an adult" / "Tim Drake looks like a teenager" correct check mark x2 post

Tim Drake Elitist joke "name a dozen of his friends"

Tim Drake created the modern Batfamily (Jesus meme)

Ives just about has a head on him height-wise (honestly I think this makes it look generous for Tim, like that's hair, ok)

He's shorter than all his male classmates, he's down with the girls

(He's in high school)

He's got this cutest little freakin button nose

It's like when a kitten is angry

Baby. Baby boy

...Oh shit excuse me sir please don't hurt me