I played those mods. Those were mods that were added to Civ4 a long while after the game was released. It's not a fair comparison.
Yes, mods take time, I get that. And it was not until Civ4 had both expansions made that it actually was worth modding. Since if you made mods before that you would have trouble converting.
Hydro, I think the amount of willing modders you can find reflects the amount of people who will actually be interested in playing this mod.
That's good then. Because a lot of modders who jumped on the Civ5 band wagon have since returned to mod for Civ4. And even before Civ5 there were a lot of modders for this mod (well the predecessors of this mod).
Not to mention, not everyone likes a billion and a one different units and options and what-have-you. Its a mistake to equate "amount of content" with depth.
I totally agree. I am in the camp of "more is more" while I know many other modders who believe "less is more". IF you think less is more then play Civ5 or even RAND since it has cut back a lot from what RoM+AND was. The creator of RAND, Afforess, is totally in your camp and there are lots of others in the Civ4 community who would agree with you. I just happen to like to mod by adding, not subtracting.
Also, comparing WoW to Pong? I haven't played Civ5 yet, but I find that to be a highly exaggerated comparison. Comparing Civ5 as a crudely programmed video game during the dawn of home entertainment system is quite a far cry when considering all the effort put into the presentation of Civ5. It just doesn't have nearly as much the content, sure. But you're forgetting this game is still fairly new with a possible expansion in the works. The modding community still has yet to grow accustomed to the new environment. Obviously the amount of available mods for Civ4 make it all the more appealing, hence why you conclude Civ5 sucks.
Ok maybe its an exaggeration, but I still feel like Civ4 (even Vanilla) is superior to Civ5 when it comes to the ability to mod it. Sure Civ5 has nicer graphics (not by much) and hex is cool. But overall being able to actually mod Civ5 has been not only difficult for other modders but really frustrating. Many of the aspects of modding they use to be able to do has just been hard-coded or dumbed down and even taken out of the game all together (can we say religions?).
But really this topic was not ment to debate whether or not Civ5 is better than Civ4, its to show you this awesome mod and that you should try it out because a lot of people put a lot of their time and effort into the game and really it is like 3 or 4 expansions into one, if not an entirely new game that just happens to use Civ4 as its base.
Whenever I get CivIV and have played the base game for a while I will definitely try this out. 
Awesome. I suggest you work your way up by playing RoM and then AND before trying out C2C. It can be overwhelming for new players. Its more aimed for veteran Civ4 players crave more content.
