Go read the Metacritic reviews of CoD back from 2011. There's some low scores for you.
CloD can't hurt you any more, get over it, we are talking about the currently supported by it's devs last great hope for flight simulation BOS......it's not doing so great.
So look how CoD has evolved and improved. Low scores from the early launch days of these things are only so relevant. There's reviews of RoF that talk about its "poor" SP content. Now it's one of the best.
Well there you go then, why don't you just sit back and relax and bask in the inevitable glory, you have just pointed out a natural process of things so you don't need to fight back so hard at the inevitable criticism.
