Well, the humour thing is really subjective thing. I like what you don't and you like what I don't. In my opinion this mission is more or less challenging as stealth mission - partly since water is deadly here and Hanover Aldercash built lots of really nasty traps around this. That's in my opinion the biggest achivement here. Perhaps will replay it later with ghost/no blackjack in mind. As for parody/TDS mocking - well, I'm also not in his camp entirely, but sometimes itmanaged to put a sm...
Well, UdoKrawallo is right - every mission isn't immune to criticism and Robbing the Cradle is not that hallowed and sacred either. That being said, - I quite like build-up in the beginning of mission and also the game here in any case still remains stealth though you can blow up puppets, distract them, flash-bomb them etc. It remains faithful to the spirit of series and TDS in particular - in that this level is a huge player's sandboxy playground. Perhaps, Lauryl's quests can become a chore ...