I would consider it a compliment. It just means you sought help before you fell completely into hell.
Personally, I choose not to judge someone else by what they have or don't have when they find sobriety. The outside stuff is irrelevant. It is the inside that ultimately destroys us as alcoholics. Some are just fortunate enough to have reached the inside bottom before they lost all the outside stuff. That is in no way a bad thing.
Just a thought, have you talked with your sponsor and let them know that it kind of hurt your feelings. I have found that for me when I hear something that hurts my feelings and I am having trouble not taking it personally it helps me to talk with the person and find out the intent behind the comment. Usually, I find that I took it in a different way than it was intended. Especially in early sobriety, because my feelings were so raw and new anyway everything hurt.