I feel like the Sims 4 is just different, not necessarily worse. You get completely different things. For example, Island Living has the whole Island Conservation thing, which is new and different and Eco like people have been asking for for years. People are made that We don't have a Supernatural expansion pack but the ones we have gotten (vampires and spellcasters) have been leaps and bounds better than their predecessors.
The point isn't to remake each EP with better graphics but to build new and different gameplay. So it comes down to... do you want more robust components like a deep dive into Cats and Dogs or do you want smaller gameplay but more animals?
