Unable To Tan with Island Living Expansion

I guess the person above me didn't read the part about UNINSTALLING AND REINSTALLING the game.  A "factory reset" shouldn't be necessary at all after a complete reinstall.  I've been having suntan issues where I can have a sim sit all day on a lounger in Sulani and never get anything for it.  It worked ONCE, back when the EP was new, but every EP since breaks something else in Sulani or with Island Living in general and it feels like EA refuses to address or fix it.  Here in 2024, I've been having this issue for nearly a solid year.  And now Lovestruck's stupid ring bear quest has janked up all the fishing signs so I can't even catch my next meal without going to Ciudad Enamorada.

Seriously, EA, get it together and stop breaking IL.  It's your second-best EP (behind Cottage Living).  Makes you look bad when you keep wrecking your best stuff with your worst ideas.

Edit:  I will say that I *can* shift-click and use Pack Cheats to give my sims tans.  Just, doing it the normal way has failed despite hours of sitting around, and cheating the tan on doesn't complete the aspiration goal to get a suntan, so my second-generation sims who have lived in the islands all their lives can't complete the aspiration that's unique to the location where they live.  There was a period of time between a couple updates where I'd get the error "it's too dark" despite being full daylight with clear skies in Sulani, but that's gone now and we're back to failure to tan despite length of time sitting there.

And yes, I am running mods ... including a mod that fixes this issue, as well as a mod that lets me cheat past that aspiration goal.  I feel bad for people who don't mod to fix these errors, and can't or won't cheat to indemnify themselves of what the game ought to be giving them.