Quoted from T7:

One major difference (and why you are wrong) is the rules in TWD. It's still early code and the rules are just way more fun than those 2 games already -> because Lyman does a great job with rules - period.

Quoted from T7:

You forgot to include an "IMO" in your opinion
IMO it's too early to tell if this will be an A game or not. It very well could be, as it has everything needed so far. If the code ends up being an A, this WILL be an A game for me and I'm pretty confident that many other pinheads will feel the same.
As for too many games on the market - that's pretty irrelevant - either a game is an A game or it's not. TBL and TH could both be awesome -> but the rules will make or break them too.
It's funny to me, but at this time there's a lot of focus on SDTM drains - which are easily fixed, so it's really no big deal. The much more important factors in how good this game will be are the rules, layout and theme integration. The layout is awesome IMO, the theme and integration are awesome IMO, and the rules are poised to be awesome IMO. I'm pretty confident that many of the naysayers don't have a clue regarding the rules, and are therefore very shallow in their conclusions. But to each his/her own.