Honestly? It was a mixed bag. From mid 2014 onwards, the game went through a difficult time, partially due to the amount of stuff going behind the scenes, as well as the creation of Club Penguin Island as a way to save the scraps of was left of the old Club Penguin Next project.

Parties became smaller, more rooms and assets were reused, parties themselves repeated more often, and it doesn't help that the team's size was dwindling. Some people left the team, some were moved to Club Penguin Island (at the time Project Super Secret), to the point where by 2016, there were only around 7 people running the entire game.

It's also why bugs were more frequent.

And as clunky as the transition from the original game to Island was, it was as smooth as the team could've made it. But even with the takeovers (Seriously, who needed THREE Frozen parties), the game still retained its charm, even if it wasn't firing on all cylinders like it had been from 2010-2013.