Well, it looks like when you "Start Gathering" with programming as a club activity, it opens up the ability to make Video Games and Mobil Apps even if you have 0 programming skill. When I hit "End Gathering" it went back to just offering "Practice Programming" for the ones that have 0 skill. I have somehow never noticed it before. I run households of Sims thru the Cooking and Tech aspirations just to get it out of the way and have played a lot of hours like that without ever seeing this happen to programming. But I did take an extended break from the game and am just now back and some stuff has been changed. Perhaps this is how it's supposed to work now.
The romance weirdness was also a long time ago, but what I remember is that it opened up all romance options even toward people outside the club. You could greet a brand new Sim not in the club then profess your deep abiding love for them immediately. Maybe that is intended too.
I really appreciate the help of those who replied! This "feature" does take a lot of time off of the amt of programming Sims usually have to do to earn their way toward making an app or video game, which is needed for the aspiration. Perhaps I'll just make use of it to save that time.
I think I interacted with you at least a year or two ago when encountering bugs and my own user errors, Crin! I remember you being just as great then. :D
