Anyone who has invested any legitimate amount of time in All Pro would never have said that.
It's still night and day. The one thing I'll give Madden credit for is I believe their product actually understands run concepts
a little better. The power O and Zone run plays are actually readable now, and All Pro wasn't entirely there yet outside of their power plays. The Madden dev team deserves real praise for that.
That said, The individual that tried to assert this falsehood has already proven themselves not to be taken seriously. I never, in my life, saw anyone call that game "APFB2K8".
"Football" is one word, and the game was
APF2K8.