Trick is not 'holding onto that', he's actually right, him and Nvr were always right. As Final Crisis demonstrated, Darkseid's full form hasn't actually been seen in the main DCU, but once it manifested, even while dying, it dragged the whole Multiverse with him twoards his 'grave', the Black Hole at the base of creation. Even in his condition, in order to beat him, they needed Batman to shoot him with a Radion bullet that, as described by Grant Morrison, slays ideas, for the Flashes to bring the Black Racer to him by going beyond lightspeed and entering inside Darkseid's singularity, and for Superman to finally finish him off with a last effort using an attack that practically negates Darkseid from the Multiverse, a counter-frequency.