We need to seriously discuss the pie menus
They are so cluttered with options it's extremely messy and honestly very frustrating to deal with.
For example the latest EP added yet another separate option to buy something from the computer under the order section (caterpillar incubator) like WHY?? We can already purchase it from BB there is literally no reason for it to be there. Right now with not even owning all packs I have 20 (TWENTY!!) options under "order" in the computer.
Here's an idea why can we not just combine every single option there into one thing? Click it - it opens up a whole new UI menu where you can filter items and buy things from there. Plopsy could have its own section in this menu for anyone who owns the Nifty Knitting pack but everything else could be filtered or searched for in there. This is kind of a tangent but it would be neat if whatever we ordered from there would arrive in a few sim days or something adding some realism where we have to go to the mailbox to collect whatever we bought.
Another example would be the shower. There is no reason for there to be so many different ways to take a shower, yes they provide an emotion boost but there are so many ways we can boost emotions that this feature is not needed anymore. Or if you really want to keep it just add them all under a "shower" category where it shows all the emotions there and you can pick which one you want.
My third example is the actual sim pie menu. Just clicking on your own sim there are 16 options. Why do I have the option to pick the way my sim eats? This could be a thing to choose within the CAS menu, not here. Also we don't need the option to choose what our sim prefers for rock, paper scissors. Is this game really made for children? Give us some spontaneous randomness of the sims, this shouldn't even be there and if you are so adamant to keep it just add that into the CAS menu as well. Things like that would make more sense there as well. And why can we stargaze AND moongaze?? Just pick one, combine them together we don't need these to be separate. Just combine whatever buffs they give and make it a single option. And again I have 16 options showing just by clicking a single sim without owning every single pack.
And now for another frustrating thing. Clicking on other sims.
This has to be one of the worst designs I have ever seen. The Hobbies and Interests are separate categories. Why? Just combine them under one thing. There is a stories category under "Friendly" and another one under "Funny". This should be combined together, and hovering over the interaction could say "this is a funny story" or something so the player is aware.
Discussing occults is another, these should be combined into one thing or create an occult category that combines them all together. Weather preferences could also be something to set in CAS, there isn't a need for it to be in the social pie menu.
Clicking on a fridge as well, I have 22 options currently. You can pick utensils here by the way as well (I have no idea why it's in two different places.) There honestly should be just an option that combines all the cooking options and puts them under one thing. Cook and Bake should be the main options, within them they can show everything you are able to cook inside those categories. Whether it be a Grand Meal, etc. There are also two options that give you a quick meal, one is using the microwave, another isn't. This shouldn't be a thing. Just have it be "Have a quick meal" and if the option needs a microwave the sim will go to the microwave.
There are HUNDREDS of examples of this but I really do not want to type it all out unless I'm getting paid by EA. But there really needs to be a shakeup in the design team and they have to go back and address these issues. If we really are stuck with this game for another 10 years something needs to be done ASAP.