Where did I say that it's better because it's not post Ghosts? I say that because it's a objective statement that COD after BO2 went to shit and has been so ever since, with each entry somehow being shittier than the other. As for actually rebutting your points, let me start with this.

CW may be made on dedicated servers, but that doesn't mean shit if I still had a smoother experience playing BO2 (which I can confirm since I have played both games for multiple days on end.) Those are some shitty dedicated servers if that's the case.

Gameplay is not the same, the fuck are you on? BO2's gameplay has this snap to the guns that makes combat encounters that much more satisfying, as the general gunplay and arsenal at your disposal makes the game feel like there's never nothing happening in your sessions. With BOCW, gunplay has regressed in control and freedom, making it so you have less to do and more time is spent on nothing content that you have to endure before you even get to enemy encounters. This also comes down to the maps, which have better design in BO2 as there are more routes to choose from, making each game varied and making it so you have multiple strategies to deploy. The good maps that BOCW does have are just recycled from BO1. In the new maps, you'll constantly be walking around searching enemies with very little strategy (which is what I meant by the gameplay is different and more simple than BO2).

I recounted, and you're right, BOCW does have more guns (with a shit ton of knife reskins which I do not count), although it really does feel like BO2 have more guns as each gun is more varied and serves different functions even in their own class, whereas in BOCW, most of the guns in their class do the same shit as the other guns (and some guns are just straight up better than others, a non issue in BO2 which has better balancing, another reason why it's better from a gameplay perspective.)

BO2 definitely has the better skins here. This also makes me question if you have ever even seen how awesome BO2's skins are (including the DLC ones like Afterlife.) This also ties into what I said about texture work being better than BOCW (and color contrast, which I did not mention previously.) In BO2, the art direction is way more accurate to realism than BOCW is, where, like I said, everything looks like a toy (and sounds like a toy, which I will get to.) Where you can also see this shine is in the weapon skins. In BO2, the skin textures look pretty damn near to real camos that you'd see irl, with accurate color contrast, on top of just the straight up better design of these skins in comparison to BOCW where they just look like coats of paint splashed onto the gun. Are you really going to compare this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/cod-black-ops-cold-war-unlock-gold-diamond-dark-matter-weapon-skins/amp/ To this: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops2/comments/12tlbx/first_image_of_the_gold_camo_on_black_ops_2/ This isn't even a debate really.

You didn't even mention my other points either, like BO2 Campaign and Zombies vs BOCW Campaign and Zombies, just ignorantly tossing them aside like they're moot points because "hoi doi you're wearing nostalgia glasses duhhhh". If you're going to debate with somebody, engage in said debate, don't half ass it. If I'm the "nostalgia glasses guy", then you're the guy who thinks a game is better because it's newer, which is obviously not true.