And his word shall be heard (well, sorta), once the WOA trilogy finally gets repackaged as the one game it is 
I don´t mind smaller levels, but I prefer each Hitman level to be a contract/have a target to kill, so I´m comfortable with how it is now. The Hong Kong quartet however was done extremely well in this regard. And btw, technically we´ve gotten 4 build-up levels to get to the Partners, so…