I don't really like the whole reveal the secret identity trend in comics in general. I can buy it to a degree for Tony Stark and Captain America. Stark doesn't have the same kind of group of family that many heroes have, and because of who he is, he happens to be able to protect himself and anyone he wants with ridiculous technology. Cap also doesn't have a family, and he hangs out in Avengers mansion. And he is a symbol of honesty and so on, so it sort of makes sense that he'd be honest about who he is.
For Daredevil, on the other hand, he does have a pretty wide network of friends and loved ones, several of whom have been killed already, and his villains are often totally insane, so they are much more likely to go kill those friends and loved ones than the relatively more sane Iron Man and Cap villains. Dick Grayson fits into this same mold. With villains like Joker et al, they're going to kill your friends and family at the first opportunity. And I can't believe that no one is gong to make a connection between Dick and Bruce. Even if normal people don't, certainly their villains are going to. It seems like a big can of worms that would be hard to fix. And once this happens in a comic, it's hard to reverse. With Spider-Man, they had to have Dr Strange fix it, and with Daredevil, they've obviously been working for years now to reverse what Bendis started, only to eventually realize that they couldn't, and they had to embrace it as they're trying to do now in the new DD volume.
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