Make the Inventory more usable

At the current state of the game, sims inventories are a mess and barely usable. They are full of stuff that keeps piling up in there, and a lot of it can't be removed because it's needed for gameplay reasons. (Knitting baskets, bicycles, soccer balls, cameras etc can all only be used from the inventory.)

The existing filters are a hassle to use and don't work for many items. Sorting by newness makes sense for quickly finding recently added items, but not for anything else. Freshness only makes sense to sort by for foods. Favouriting things doesn't help much, either. 

Suggestions:

Make the search/sorting function more useful by letting us search/filter/sort by category of items. By "what sort of thing even is this". Examples for possible categories:

Consumables (foods, drinks, potions)

Harvestables (fruit/plants, fish, wool, etc)

Books

Arts and crafts (finished crafts, craftable items, things like easels, instruments, the archeology table, knitting basket, cameras etc)

Activity items (toys, earbuds, bikes, soccer balls, skiis, snowboards, climbing gear, jungle excursion stuff, etc)

Upgrade parts

Collectibles (gemstones, time capsules, display figurines, sea shells, what have you, there are so many collectibles in the game by now)

Other for the possible few items that fit in neither category

For maximum visual improvements, separate the categories by something like a line break or a small horizontal divider. And let us search and sort by category. Show me all books! Show me all types of wool I have! Where are all my toys! Whatever happened to my climbing gear? Well, I don't know, because I can currently only sort by things like freshness and rarity, and freshness or rarity are not a sensible sorting type for climbing gear and ear buds. I would maybe have an easier time locating my tripod if it was a rare tripod, but such a thing doesn't exist, so you have to just dig it out from between wool, spoiled fish you forgot about, anti-insect potions and random upgrade parts.

What do you guys want from an inventory? (I couldn't find an existing discussion about this, but I can't be the only one to find the current state of the inventory annoying?)