Claude Desktop is an Anthropic product, Openclaw is not (their founder works for OpenAI even).
Anthropic wants you to use their subscription only for Anthropic products.
I don’t think the difference is that difficult to see.
I guess parents point how dangerous OpenClaw is and that Claude Code is now similarly dangerous
Both teams ship at breakneck speed and both randomly regress. I don't see such a big difference. Claude now uses Claude by default to judge whether a tool call is sane or not. At least OC is transparent about the insanity of running bash commands unchecked.