Carl's take of ways for improvement.

@ApparentlyAwesome I agree, and thank you :) I keep hoping the Sims 5 will be an improvement, too. I find it very hard to get a couple hundred hours into the Sims 4, but easy to get a couple thousand hours into the Sims 3. It has been years, and I still haven't gotten through absolutely everything, and still don't run short of ideas to try out in the game. I hope something comes along to build upon what is great about the Sims. I'm just not so sure the Sims 4 is the place where that's going to happen. The Sims 4 is what it is, and when I played it I didn't expect it to be the Sims 3, and I tried... a lot... but it just doesn't get there. The math of how much more complex traits alone were in the Sims 3 speaks for itself. No idealization required. More numbers, more complexity. Saying the Sims 4 is the most complex Sims ever is really, truly a lie. It was even marketed as more complex, with more complex emotions and relationships than ever before. Numbers don't lie, though, and the complexity compared to what was available before was pretty rinky. Being that is what sets the Sims 4 apart the most from previous titles is the LACK of complexity, marketing it as more complex is kind of weird.