Honestly, I kinda can relate and kinda not. I just got the sims 3 after 3 years of not having it, and after fixing all my issues via the help of some awesome people in this forum, I am enjoying it a lot. The sims 3 is my fave, sims 2 comes after, sims 4 is last and I don't have enough experience with 1 to comment on that.
But despite 3 being my fave, and 2 having gotten most of my time dedicated to it, I play a healthy dose of all of them.
The sims 2 I play rotational in my own world (never played the ea ones), sims 3 I have 1 save with a bunch of families, aging on, sims 4 is kinda the same but I like doing challenges there. The sims 4 is very much a money grabber, but I don't really hate it.
