What I think about Loyal Trait and the addition of baby behavior:

I think maybe you’re interpreting these a little too narrowly?

I think “loyal” is meant to be a more general “I’m loyal to friends and family, so once we’re good friends (or married) I will be less likely to insult you (or cheat)” - that can be a character trait even before you get married, and unfortunately is not a trait everyone who gets married actually has. I still resent the fact that they seemed to decide being disloyal was the default but that’s a separate argument…

Similarly, “exploring romantically” doesn’t mean “looking for a partner” it means “not locked into one specific orientation” which getting married doesn’t necessarily change. Sure, you like this specific person, but if they die or the marriage falls apart maybe the next person you fall in love with will be very different. 🤷🏼‍♀️

They should just add a reward trait in the satisfaction store. So, each simmer could self-decision which sims are romantical loyal, and which are not. // And you need to work for it!

The random flirting was always a problem in sims, not only in sims 4. I always needed a mod to make my sims monogamous.  I know polygamy exist and don’t want to take something away from this people which want to play this route. So, I just use mods to make my sims monogamous, but I rather would have a system in game. As I know the poly-route doesn’t work really without NAP free love or the player trait.

I don’t want the marriage link with loyal. Married doesn’t mean loyal or happy. It could be an arranged married or could be a bogus wedding. So, a lesbian could marry a man because on the storyline of the writer women are forbidden to have weddings with other women’s and the family decision that she need to marry a man. It is complex and with your loyal link in marriage it would be destroy many stories from simmers which want to play such a story. // Such is important that romantic interest doesn’t change automatic because this lesbian woman will still love woman.

Crawling is a feature of the new infant life stage. I don’t think they dare to change lifespan again not after they almost destroy so many save file with the last aging adjusting. Baby -> Infant -> Toddler

@Pick-a-boo_doo No worries! Just wanted to clarify that those particular pieces of game play didn't really apply the way it sounded like you expected. I absolutely agree that the flirty moodlet system is more annoying then anything - I can never get a pair of happily married Sims to socialize with friends together and actually stay happily married. Because they'll get the flirty moodlets just from being near each other, and then proceed to flirt with everyone in the room.

I really, really wish moodlets had some sort of target to them. So if you're flirty because you're in the same room as your spouse, then you can be flirty at your spouse rather than with the random delivery guy or whoever. If you're angry because Nancy Landgraab just implied your mother is a llama, then you can be angry at Nancy rather than wandering away from her after inviting her in, then going to scream at your kid or knock over your own trash can. Sure, emotions can spill over - even when angry at Nancy, you could still have the option to vent/rant to other Sims, and maybe be more likely to dislike interactions or react to dislikes faster - but the strongest reaction/interaction could be with the person or thing that actually caused the emotion. This is not a dimension the Sims actually has right now, and I bet would be difficult to add if not impossible... but I just really wish it existed.