Swerve used to be a real dick to almost everyone. I always got along with him and never had any issues with him. CC was one of the first known seed companies that started releasing real OG strains. To this day, his first release Buddha Tahoe OG was the best representation of real OG I have seen from seeds. Unfortunately, right after the first run he changed the parents. There were always tons of hermie issues, but that was a given with all OG seeds when they first came out. Seems they have stabilized the strains now more, but even still there is a strong hermie trait.
I remember one poster here that railed against CC all the time, he had a bad hermie problem and it seeded his entire crop and he was pissed. About a year later he posted again saying every seed that came out of the crop were all fem (no herms) and some of the best weed he has smoked.
It was almost always a pheno hunt to get the fire from CC, but when you found it, no one else could really compete at that point. Back then, people hated to admit it, but a lot of their "strains" came from CC crosses.