Let me guess, you also believe "James Bond" is a code name? There's nothing to explain, the character is recast, that's all! He doesn't change his looks or personality, he's simply played by different actors
I'm guessing that MooseNugget was referring to the habit of Blofeld changing his appearance throughout the novels:
Blofeld makes three appearances in Ian Fleming's novels. He first appears in [...] Thunderball. Blofeld is described physically as a massive man, weighing roughly 20 stone (280 lb; 130 kg), has black crew-cut hair, black eyes (similar to those of Benito Mussolini), heavy eyelashes, a thin mouth and long pointed hands and feet.
Blofeld is absent from the next novel, The Spy Who Loved Me. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), Bond learns that Blofeld has radically altered his appearance—he is now tall and thin; has reduced his weight to 12 stone (170 lb; 76 kg); sports long silver hair, a syphilitic infection on his nose and no earlobes; he wears dark green tinted contact lenses to hide his distinctive eyes.
In You Only Live Twice Blofeld [...] has once again changed his appearance: He has put on some muscle, and has a gold-capped tooth, a fully healed nose, and a drooping grey mustache. Bond describes Blofeld on their confrontation as being "a big man, perhaps six foot three (190 cm), and powerfully built". It is indicated that Blofeld has by now become a madman, as he all but admits himself when Bond levels the accusation.
So I think your reply was a little rude. Of course the character was recast in each film, that's obvious. But that doesn't mean they couldn't have used the in-universe explanation, which was provided in the novels, as a way to address it. For once a series has the perfect excuse for the old continuity problem of recasting, and they didn't even bother to use it.
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