You're one of the people who somehow believes the support and patches post release turned Black Ops from a potentially great game ruined by connectivity issues into a potentially great game that was only mildly hindered by connectivity issues.
...BUT...
The connectivity issues never went away, decreased or changed much at all - just some pogo-ing around between ocassional joy and mass frustration.
Black Ops today, plays for many like crap, most of the time, for all it is crap some of the time, for some it is crap all of the time.
Others also say that old CODies are warped by the passage of time and that all CODs were like Black Ops, in terms of lag and connectivity. Simply not true. Check out my COD NOW AND THEN thread in off-topic.
Anyway, I'm not bitter or worried anymore, just keen. I want BOII to work - that would be a riotous success for all. If it doesn't, then it's natural selection in computer gaming sense and another series is on the way down.