Excuse me, but I just happen to akin to a village idiot! But who the heck is coming up with these updates? And what rationale?
It is taking more than four hours to update my game. And the reason? There is no reason!!!! I don't have any glitches like the ones described!
And the one thing that our "Dear Leaders" in Sims-land who think they know it all best for us haven't fixed is the god-damned bookcase, which is a mess! No chronological order! You can buy books in chronological order! What was so hard that the Sims 3 managing of books and the ability to read / not read books depending upon skill that it could not be translated into Sims 4?
My advice? Leave the $%%-ing game alone until after new releases are tested thoroughly to the point where no patches are needed. Is the desire for money so great that that the company has completely forgotten customer satisfaction? What happened to product quality and dependability? Oh, that's right! We let the liberals start running the country where anything goes, and everything goes out the window!
Lastly, get rid of that awful Origin interface! Let us be able to play our games when we want and without all of these updates. The only time I have ever had to update Sims 3 is when I added a new add-on. And it will be a cold day in Hades if I ever do that again!