Businesses & Hobbies should’ve enhanced other gameplay (esp. Get to Work).

I’ll start this post by saying that while I love the Sims, I very much at times have a lot going on in life and therefore, I find I play Sims in bursts. There have been a lot of packs and kits coming out, and it’s hard for me to get right into all the new content of a pack, so forgive me if I’m a little late sharing my disappointments with Businesses and Hobbies.

That being said, I’m sure I’m missing so many things, as I spent sooooo long perfecting my build and then tried to play my business a few times and was so disappointed. So there’s probably a lot I’m missing…

With this pack, I thought I would finally be able to run a bakery/bookstore/cafe type of business, and after having played Get to Work, I thought that Businesses and Hobbies would have enhanced Get to Work features, and that they would be cross-compatible. After spending a lot of time building my Sims bakery and baking a ton of stuff, I have to say that this pack is so lacking and I’ve wasted so much time!!!

1. only certain retail shelves work to display and sell goods, which really limits what can be sold and how things can be displayed. I would have thought any surface could have worked to display/sell goods.
2. the retail freezer and food warmer from get to work don’t work in a businesses and hobbies store!! Sims will not come and freely buy from these items. Such a disappointment after spending so much time crafting items and stocking these items. I have to now change a lot of my business from this..
3. The ability to use the other coffee machines/espresso machines and stuff seem pretty limited in this pack- unless there is a way to incorporate them and actually sell product from them, kind of annoying! Like with the Bistro pack and Get to Work, I would have thought they would make a way to use all the coffee things in Businesses and hobbies. If i add a kettle or coffee maker then sims help themselves for free and dont order from the coffee bar from businesses and hobbies. Quite disappointing.
4. the slots for the display cases are so frustrating when trying to place items. I wish they had better slotting options. Also, Often times I place the items and my sim can’t even interact with the food either (to add secret spice or decorate), it says she can’t access them. So everything has to be perfect before going in there (I guess that makes it super realistic but it’s still annoying). 
5. why does the sweet treat display cases only come in one type of swatch- like why can’t there be different decorations ontop if I wanted to use them side to side?
6. why can’t we restock sold items?!?! In get to work I liked the ability to see an empty shelf and interact with it and do a restock. In businesses and hobbies, do I seriously have to bake more goods, write more books, craft more goods? I can’t just do a quick restock if I wanted to?!?!
7. the cash registers don’t work in businesses and hobbies and I find this so disappointing. Cash registers are so common in so many businesses and I liked interacting with them in get to work. It’s just so frustrating!
8. sims aren’t coming into my business and buying anything!!!! They hover outside, rarely come in, and even with browse and buy items as the number one activity (and even tried it as the only activity), the game is so glitchy, there’s not a lot of sims spawned, and hardly anyone buys anything. This is so different from get to work. Why can’t we just run advertisements for the business? Why are sims not buying anything?! How come if I raise the price modifier at all, no one buys anything, and even after putting everything on a huge discount, sims aren’t buying anything?!?!
9. if I put reading as an activity, for my cafe bookstore, that’s literally all they do and they leave books everywhere. WHY ARE THE BUSINESS BOOKSHELVES ATTACHED TO MY HOUSEHOLD BOOKSHELVES?!
10. WHY ARE ALL THE FRIDGES IN SYNC?!? I want to store separate items in my sims business fridge…why can’t we select a fridge as “personal” or “business”?!
11. my sim is constantly going to the business to use the sink (even when she is right next to her sink in her apartment), even when I designate all the sink types accordingly. Why can’t we select “business sink” for example. The same happens with the dishwashers…
12. When my sim bakes things in her business kitchen, instead of using the many counters available and free of clutter, she walks out into the businesses and puts things on the customer tables. Super annoying.
13. it kinda goes without saying, but where the heck are the hobbies?! I’m sorry, I get it we got tattoos and pottery, but that doesn’t suffice a “business AND hobbies” pack. They could have added so many other hobbies and also upgraded and expanded features on other hobbies in the game already, such as crochet and knitting options, etc. 
14. I think it would have been MUCH better if we could choose price modifiers based on the shelves and displays rather than the whole store/have it tied to the entrance fee. What if I wanted one shelf of bestseller books to be more expensive, or one shelf of, idk like candles or goods or something to be “on sale” or as a “clearance” for example. It’s stupid we can’t adjust the price modifiers individually for the shelves or displays. This would have made the game sooooo much more realistic. 
15. lastly, I haven’t been successful in being able to sell any of my duplicate baked goods (from that home hustle chef aspiration thing where it bakes two items that use premade ingredients). This has been an ongoing issue but surely I thought with a business focused pack they would have fixed that????

I will report back with further disappointments, I’m sure. And maybe I’m so late on the train that all of this has been said elsewhere, but I am just so…peeved. All that money spent and time spent, just to find out so many limitations. Honestly for the hype and the price point, I really think the Sims team needs to do so much better…