I kind of agree with you that Moraine is more restrictive, but I think your view of Deer Lakes is through rose-colored glasses. I love playing there, I go there often, but the water problem is really quite severe on a few holes. I _hate_ it when I get in the deep mud on 3 or 16. And yeah, you can take casual relief, but it doesn't help much as you'll be moving far away from the hole to get out of the mud.
Tunnel fairway + terrible stance from mud/water = unhappy Beable.
Yeah, both holes are a pain, but fortunately they're being worked on and hopefully they'll be fixed sometime soon (according to my conversations with J Gary after he met with park people last week).
Hole 16's being muddy is just a stupid situation. It's a leaking water pipe that really doesn't have any purpose, except to service one spigot. All it needs is for it to be shut off...and it's fixed! Supposedly that will happen soon.
Hole 3 is trickier (especially with the utility pipeline and lay of the land), but some park people with access to construction equipment have ideas and it's on their to-do list.