Can't say I'm surprised since that would require an expectation or anticipation of things being different; but I do wish there would have been a 'cue-able' purely social activity that the particular things sims can say to eachother could follow, like a timed interaction with a subsequent pie menu of chat options. I find the domino table charming but if it were like the games I played as younger it should raise language and painting and social skills; not just logic as it is now. And a great entertainment in life I have always thought to be eating and drinking in good company, and that for hours on end; but playing on high free will as I always do, the sims just don't stay put in the sofa socializing, or sit down together for a bite, unless I take actions to make their surroundings boring enough with nothing to draw their sweet, but rather short in attention spent, minds towards.