Oh, come on. It's a great airplane for what it is. It was designed mainly to carry a load into and out of short runways, and it does that outstandingly. The 100 and 200 otters with the -20 engines are underpowered, but any halfway decent otter has -27s or even -34s and does just fine. Mine climbs at nearly 1500fpm with 23 people and 1000lbs of fuel to 14,000ft. I've never flown it in icing conditions, but NASA used one for a research testbed and they came out of it alive. It's challenging in strong winds, but I've had it in some 30kt crosswinds and still kept it on a 50ft wide runway. And did you ever really see how short you can land it? Come in with full flaps right above stall speed and then go max reverse and you can stop in a few hundred feet. I'd say that's pretty good. And they're in demand, or why else would Viking even consider starting production again?

If you don't like because it's not a jet, then fine. But that's not the otter's fault.