I feel you on so many points. I started deleting my moved by moderator posts because they choose to move, what I intend to have as discussion, to the void/trash bin of feedback. I am starting to feel invalidated and I am disheartened, when I want very much to believe in the franchise, and EA team's sincerity.
AA was a mix bag (and I was buying for very narrow reasons to start with, and I should have just waited for sale), and for a while I was really excited about Custom Venues, but keep finding more and more issues. And I stupidly enough thought that the 150+ bug fixes would address AA's Custom Venue bugs.
Lot traits (certain ones) don't work with Custom Venues, only role types show up, and some (or many) activities are either not working, not working properly or missing.
I am waiting for B&H to be at a better discount, I am waiting for FR to have solid confirmation it is working right, and even after the 150+ bug fixes I am still seeing issues—of what has been told was fixed.