I liked the recurring bit about the Child eating the eggs. It added some much needed comic relief! We've also seen the vessel with the eggs in some of the trailer footage, and the condition of the Razor Crest at the end of the episode also lines up with some other trailer footage. But I think this also shows that Mando needs to start thinking more about how to essentially be a parent to the Child while he's taking care of him.
The series really does seem to like revisiting some of the McQuarrie concept art. The spiders were among his ideas for Dagobah in TESB. And of course we saw similar spiders turn up in Rebels.
Seeing a continuation of some of the events of "The Prisoner" from season 1 was good, and thankfully not overdone. The bit about the Razor Crest's transponder was just one part of that. The passenger using Zero like an interpreter was another cool tie-in. I like that the way the New Republic pilots interacted with Mando showed the ambiguity of the state of the galaxy - just because the Empire was defeated doesn't mean everything is all well and good now. Mando has had to navigate some of the changing dynamics of that. The NR pilots caused trouble for him, but then in the end they also helped rescue him. It was good to see that they recognized his part in apprehending Mayfeld, Burg and Xi'an, along with how he tried to keep them from killing Davin. Trapper Wolf making another appearance was fun - fan service, sure, but fun.
This definitely seemed like a transitional / plate setting episode. Things were looking up for Mando after chapter 9, but now he's facing more setbacks.