I think the biggest difference between ROF and CLOD is that when 777 team says is going to fix a certain aspect of the game, they'll do it and you'll never have to worry about that part of the game.
CLOD team keeps going around in circles fixing and bringing back the same bugs from patch to patch. This is the biggest problem I see with this game.
I don't think this team fully understands the code they work with. That's the only explanation i could think about.