Yeah, that's something I've noticed, which is a shame since CoC2 definitely has a lot of potential to be great and this is coming from someone that's played this game for a month before finding out it had a prequel.
One thing I've also noticed is that every so often, there will be people that start claiming that anyone who prefers the OG over this one has 'nostalgia glasses' on and can't see the stupidity that exists in that game or something along those lines. People like myself, for the reason stated earlier, can't have 'nostalgia glasses' since we've played the prequel later and ended up liking it more than the sequel we first found.
Afaik, as much as we like to rant and complain about this game until the futas come home, I don't think there's any ad hominem provocations towards people that really like CoC2. This is, again, a shame.
There's a lot of things I like about this game, it's just the things I don't like outweigh them.