So Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav laid down his plan for DC Universe within 10 years in a similar concept inspired by Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige.
This is highly ambitious for the DC Universe and Warner Bros. Discovery to utilise a similar formula that the Marvel Cinematic Universe built for many years which is not always easy to emulate considering that this requires an awful lot of time, construction, planning and patience to create a future set-up of events. The success of this concept enabled them to bring in more newer superheroes that the audience were not aware of from the likes of Ant-Man, Black Panther, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Shang Chi etc.
I was watching the Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe on Disney+ (which I recommend) and it clearly showed how well each film were able to lay an egg within its sequences that eventually led to its main course within the Avengers and the Age of Ultron.
The cancellation of Batgirl did come as quite a surprise and I felt like this was a hugely missed opportunity to introduce to a new audience. As I said before that I do feel very sorry to those who were attached to the project that was on the verge of completion only to notified that their work is not going ahead in the most horrible way. But what baffled me is the way Zaslav delivered his reasoning for the cancellation in which his statement was to "protect DC brands" within their new strategy. If Batgirl was not part of their strategy, how does something like the Flash in which its main star had already caused a lot of controversy is still being protected?
In addition, it is not just Batgirl that faced the axe, but the sequel to Scoob which was meant to air on HBO Max had a similar fate as like Batgirl was also cancelled. It is not known which other films/tv shows that could also face the chop by Warner Bros. Discovery at this time. However, this move is bound to alienate a lot of their creative talent who put a lot of time, hard work and effort spent on these projects only to be canned and may potentially put off others from working with Warner Bros. Discovery in the future.
I know that there are people like myself who is still awaiting for a new Darkstalkers game and after reading Shuhei Matsumoto's interview, whilst he is putting his expectations in place, I still believe that the only way to convince him and Capcom is the old saying that "actions speaks louder than words."