Can be influenced by subjective variables. Like do the heavy majority of people who experience the story conclude that "Batman looks extremely unimpressive here" or are you in a minority, potentially small minority of people who think that way? Or imagine if someone told you they though everything in fiction made all characters look unimpressive… okay?!? May not be a fast magic way to get them to think otherwise.
Depending what you mean by struggle, I rarely see Batman struggle with thugs, he does have to exert himself a little, and this could exist for many reasons. It creates a scale for context. Despite having many impressive moments against more intimidating threats and opponents, Batman is still a human, who has to rely as much on timing, analyzing and assessing threats carefully, being opportunistic, skill, resilience, taking hits and getting back up, so on. Grit. So for many writers, its a balance of conveying martial arts prowess and fine conditioning, with grit, resilience and perseverance traits. Wouldn't see many people viewing Batman as being bad or weaker, so outlier interpretations (yours for example) may not be catered to as much unfortunately.
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