Dear Sims team, do you want to take a break?

In my opinion, the reason that The Sims has been so popular and lasted all these years, is because there's no beginning, middle and end to the game. The player can make the game anything they want. They can be a single sim working on a career, play a large family, play in the future or the past - the possibilities are endless. And they can change the story any time they want, or have lots of different saved games to play when they get bored with one. That's why people can continue to play the game without getting bored with it for years (many, like me, 20 years!). Lately it seems that the focus of the game is changing, and we're being given more content that comes with it's own story - which makes it a much different game. New content is great, and keeps our imagination active to create new stories. But if this is going to continue as a life simulation game, we need more props to continue making our own stories, not new stories to play.