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Haven't had a problem with Offline mode as it can't tell you to update anything. Done so for a long time.
Reminder you CAN play whatever game you want you don't have to limit yourself to the Sims. I expect most that do just don't play many games outside of it and though there are some simulation games (or just playing cozy games) there's not one that's on par with this (for the moment). Been various games and triple A titles that have had game breaking bugs. With a game liek this and multiple DLC everything getting so bloated not surprised when it starts to get more difficult to pin point most problems.
Mods in general are already a gamble to use and break ones game though a lot of the online community does use it. Luckily, they did fix the issue with the game not reading .packages properly within 24 hours of the patch. At this point in time, most either left the community or you just been here for the long haul as there's already been so much with EA, since EA as a whole has never had that good of a rep to begin with.