What bothers me about it is them using it as an "easy way back" to the kid-like punk feeling of Kerplunk and Dookie, y'know? As if that makes up for the complete and utter lack of it elsewhere in their music.
I'm also very partial to Insomniac. Extremely underrated and underlooked album. Dookie shadows that album massively - in terms of sound and commercialism.
I've always thought their biggest sleeper was "Warning". Totally great album that I revisit far more than Dookie. I hit the singles from Dookie but the rest of the album is just alright with me. I should check out Insomniac again.
The hits off Nimrod were great too, though less popular commercially.
I know people that get that feeling about Warning. I don't. I think it's a really dim and boring album. It's good and I respect the change of sound that Green Day produced, but it's not for me.
I used to hate Nimrod but after many listens, it grew on me.