Maybe you're right, but at least with Michigan, it seemed like the director (whether it was Suda or not) tried to be a little subversive and have a point, even if the point itself was clumsily cynical. Killer Is Dead just seemed like a clinical sort of cynical, and that was more from the implications of including the mode at all, rather than anything its content had to say. From what I remember reading, it wasn't even meant to be in the game originally and was included at the marketers' request, right?
As it stands now, I don't know what Grasshopper is doing -- I don't even know how anything manages to get funded over there. Suda was and never will be the Quinton Tarantino of video games like people say. He was always like Kojima in the past but it seems like Grasshopper's moving more and more towards being a weird hybrid of Takashi Miike and John Waters now. Granted, I don't know how Killer Is Dead pans out, but it's been a while since he's done anything as cerebral as Killer 7 or even the first No More Heroes.