It is a good game, excluding WA/W2 and WWP, it has the best rope physics out of any the other Worms games.
I can't remember where Senator posted his video, but he has some videos of him roping and it's pretty decent, of course it's not as good as WA rope physics though.
It's pretty obvious why most WA fanatics don't like WMD though, even if WMD was 99.99% as good as WA, it would still be sh*t to them because it lacks that 0.01%
To the younger generation of gamers and people who haven't played any Worms games before, in general WMD looks miles better than WA, but to anybody who has played WA for a long time, would understand why WA is so much better.
I think WMD is good, but WA will probably always be the best there ever was or will be.