Tony manages pretty well no matter the situation, doesn't he? That's the thing they've preserved so well through all these films.

What I mean by mocking the suits was how undignified a lot of the suit manipulation was, how the suits were demeaned by making so many of them, how unglorious Tony's use of them was by controlling them remotely or even letting them go off on their own. I felt it robbed Tony of the "The suit and I are one" that is the essence of Tony Stark as Iron Man. It got to the point where they were comically foolish, and you had to chuck them all to reboot Tony and give him back his respectibility.