It was a very nostalgic moment for me playing this version. The Sims 1 was fine, but The Sims 2 was very addictive for stories, gameplay, and eventually custom content & mods. It's still hands down my absolute favorite Sims gen out. It's only that way because of how popular everything was at that time and the cd collection to prove it (oi, I just wish I knew how to save my files correctly at that time!). The only things I disliked were the troubleshootings such as lag, frozen screens, error popups, and the inability to save before leaving(I think this only happened if you installed mods or had poor storage/memory).
How are you enjoying it so far? Any future challenges besides not using cc&mods?