What on earth are you talking about. It actually boggles my mine that someone who was around for CoH2's launch would make such a claim.
I agree that on a technical level its not even close, COH 3 is in a far better state. But I think Hannibal is referring to the game as a whole, the slow updates, poor communication and the lack of features etc. All of that stuff is pretty much standard behaviour from Relic at this point.