Well, far be it from me to fix a Steve Smyers hole I haven't even played, but I appreciate the discussion. For what its worth, I recall Jim Colbert discussing WR many years ago after his first play. While he understood the course was tough, he specifically called out this hole as ridiculously tough, in a colorful way I still remember!
While not fair, if I was remodeling the hole, even in the context of the tough course mentality, I would still remove the left green front bunker and the top bunker in the hill and refashion and widen the kick plate. It angles almost 90 degrees to the green, so you have to be near pin high to use it, and I think it would work better at an angle less than 45 degrees. The right front bunker stays, and the golfer has the choice of a kick plate that gets him on the green, or firing at the pin when right.
Granted, would play easier many days when the pin was left, but nothing wrong with that on a 230 yard shot.