Or, as Dr Malcom would say: life, uh, finds a way.
This should be a crucial piece of information about the tree laws, yet it's not mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the three laws [1], which is otherwise quite detailed. Reading this, everything makes me think that it was not a parody. I didn't feel like it was parody when reading the Robot series neither. He wanted an alternative to the Frankenstein plot where robots kill their creators and the three laws were part of the answer.
Yes indeed.
> and thus the writing satirical to an extent
I don't follow here. Asimov's books don't feel satirical. Or I missed something important, but I doubt it.
I don't agree with this "thus", the implication doesn't seem automatic to me.