Carl's take of ways for improvement.

I totally agree with everything he said in his video. I hope EA/Maxis sees this. The whims, traits, friendship and romantic relationships...none of those have any meaning to the Sims. All of it is being drowned in emotions. Emotions that often have nothing to do with whatever our Sims are doing or should be feeling during traumatic situations. There are no consequences, only rewards, and that doesn't challenge us as players. The solution lies in giving us a difficulty option we can control that he proposed as a possible fix. I'd love to see that implemented. Tone down the craziness in the emotions so they don't override everything else. Thanks for posting his video @DragonKat159. Everything I have thought is wrong with Sims4 was just validated, and I was not wrong in feeling the game lacks depth on many levels.