Actually Earth has indeed blue clouds when seen from space, it's just not very saturated. As I said, normally all clouds look white for the same reason snow is looking white. Light gets reflected and refracted so between the particles that make the clouds light has all colors and goes in all possible directions, mixing up to white again.
If enough atmosphere is between you and the clouds, that atmosphere will filter out certain wavelengths. How much atmosphere is between the observer and the clouds depends on the scale height and density of the atmosphere as well as on the density of the clouds particles, also on the temperatures and pressure in certain atmosphere layers and the state or phase of matter of the cloud material.
You can watch the white cloud effect on a car's front pane when it breaks and the filter effect if you throw white noodles into a strong soup. The front pane will go from transparent into white (even though the pieces will still be transparent. The noodles will look the color of your soup and more so as they sink deeper.
However, I can't disagree that the effect seems a little exaggerated since the update. I don't mind since it adds to immersion. Once we can "compose" atmospheres that shouldn't be an issue. And yes, I do want to have a selection of possible gases to compose an atmosphere and they should correspond with the temperatures on a planet pretty much like the CO2 Ice on Mars. Those things are far away still, so I can live with the fake.