it's aesthetically inferior in every single way from Contracts and BM, it just happened to be released when technology improved and symptomatically the mechanics are better, that does not make the designing nor the direction any better.
The game is glorified only in the sense of its replayability, including hundreds of "creative" ways of killing a target and expecting the player to go through them is dull and pointless.

btw, anyone who defends their online only practices and the way the sell the game need to be lynched.