I agree, especially about counting family, and also children, which I find creepy.
I tested out the pack and world in a new save, and had my lone household sim only socialize with their lover and the old couple that are premades in Mount Komorebi, which got them the Close Knit lifestyle.
Story Progression gave the opportunity to give the old couple advise on having a baby, which I said yes to, to see if it would happen; it did.
When my sim were at their house, helping keeping the baby fed and clean and amused, they reached friendship level with the baby, and as a result had a lot of angst moodlets adhering to the lifestyle and subsequently lost it.
A friendship is mutual affection between equals. Feelings of care and warmth are not the same. I find it creepy when the distinction between adults and underage are not recognized. I know the game call them all friends, which is fine, as long as it doesn't start a whole identity crisis within the adult sim who then cannot 'balance' their lifestyle, as the moodlets said, among other things.
