i agree with you on this one
asking for a baby, a date, friendship, jobs, job offerings, festivals, earning money, giving others money, getting anonymous call
unless you don't have a career, the work offering they are giving you completely needs to go, it's not necessary, they should remove it, however neighbourhood stories are fine though, just not the phone calls if you already have a career
as for the other ones, friendship, romance, job careers, having kids we already have neighbourhood stories for that and i'm fine with it so a call asking to have a baby isn't necessary
as for the festivals i know it means well but it's so annoying we get a call each time there's some kind of a festival (the event that pops up in general should be optional to toggle it on/off)
as for the money to earn them by a phone call: it may be good for some challenges if you want your sims to get married to become rich, other than that, it isn't necessary, i know we have 3 options we can click on but we don't need this so often if your sim is single
as for giving others money, i know others can earn them from your money but it's freaking annoying especially if you want a challenge you start poor, if we are giving them money we can do so themselves when face to face instead of the phone call one
we don't need the phone calls all the times, it can be way lesser
we need a version like The Sims 2 we get a phone call your sim answer the call without the question popping up all the times