Cynna - I guess we will just have to agree to disagree - but I do feel the game has improved tri-fold otherwise I would not be here playing it.
As for the subject of life - well that's far too deep and out of place for me to delve into - but I can tell you one thing, years ago I thought like you did when I was in my twenties and thirties - and that's all I am going to say on that subject, other than life is neither fair or kind to everybody no matter how hard they try. I am glad to have a game about life that I can get myself lost in - well where people like characters are actually pretty happy most of the time if you let them be happy.