This is happening to me on Xbox Series X since adding High School Years. My Sims just collect plates and then stop on their way to wash them then place them somewhere random. If there's a coffee table in the kitchen they'll put them there. I often put a couple of coffee tables around a BBQ area so there's a place to set down cooked food but it's like they start to collect plates, see the coffee table and make a bee line for that instead. If there are already empty plates on a coffee table as they are clearing they will ignore those ones.
Sometimes though, they put them on shelves, desks and kitchen slots where you can't see them.
Dirty dishes can go anywhere, especially during student life. Who hasn’t found that one plate and multiple forks or spoons under their bed after detecting that odd aroma? Ohh, just us? Anyway apparently that isn’t where you should put them, and now neither will Sims who used to put them in the most distant parts of the home. Now they should show a bit more home pride and place dirty dishes in appropriate locations.
Fixed in Patch 1.102.190/1.82
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