The wants and fears system is boring and too easily-gamed
The way it's set up, you actually DON'T want to have your Sims do what they want. Since you need to complete a want to get rid of a fear, the obvious strategy is to pin wants that are easy to complete (like "listen to latin music"), and then never do them. And once your Sim develops one of the 5-or-so different fears, you just quickly complete one of your wants and then chat with a sim about it. Bam, you never ever need to deal with a fear, and all it requires is to never do what your Sims want.
It seems a little silly that the way to "win" the wants and fears system is to almost never have sims do what they want. I'm pretty sure that's the opposite of the system's intention, right?
