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I refused to touch Sims 4 for so long. I gave it a chance around L&D as between RoM and L&D enough of the content I wanted appeared to be available in game. Bought most occult packs, CCSP, PSP and CoL.
It was meh... I had to get a skill lock mod just to play because the autonomy and skill gain of skills the disliked was and is still non-stop... EbN came out and I felt "ok this is even more geared to my playstyle" bought much more EPs. But still the bugs, bad autonomy and traits play so little a role to make a Sim unique was just so much I struggled. I bought AA mostly just for butterflies/entomology and Custom Venues. Custom Venues still glitchy and waiting for fixes—I burnt out and took a long break.
R&L drew me back in and to an extend Dynasty Skills/Ideals autonomy is helping Sim behave as they should unattended. But it isn't enough traits/autonomy just has to be overhauled/fixed, old pack features require more enable/disable toggles, fixes and updates.
In a weird way the game is starting to feel fleshed out and playable, but with old features needing updates or fixes, and is instead making new versions of the features (as many mentioned recycled content). This is like Sims 4 best and worst at the same time for me, enough for me to keep playing, but at the cost of me highly criticizing the franchise more than ever...