But you are dismissing the many players that actually like, even love this game - that to me seem highly colored by the facts it is neither of your cup of tea. I do - in fact see many players outside of the forum that really, REALLY love this version of the game. Granted a fair number of those outright dislike Sims 3 and another fair number of those did not play the Sims since 2000 like many of us did.
But there are a fair number of players who also have played from the first game - that do also like this version of the game. You cannot judge fairly the appreciation of the Sims 4 players who do enjoy Sims 4 and the less complicated play it offers as not everyone is a builder; not everyone want to highly manipulate the tiniest detail of the game as much as they previously may have liked doing in past games. Some people like uncomplicated, and less involvement in pre-playing than they did say 10-15 years ago. In todays society a lot of people want less complications in their lives - they just want to kick off their shoes and just get down to relaxing a bit with a game for maybe shorter periods or what ever. People do not have the kind of time they use to have to waste in preliminary functions to making a game perfectly their own - but instead want to just enjoy briefer periods of "escape" from their real world and maybe into the Sims world. Which you have to admit in Sims 4 is much easier to accomplish that desire.
That is much like people themselves - some people like the LESS is MORE way of life now a days. They don't care for clutter and tons of stuff cluttering their lives. They like modern houses, clean lines, white walls - no dust grabbers. They call many of us older folk "Hoarders" even because we collect things - the more wall and shelf clutter- the better kind of people to the newer age of society is much frowned upon - so I can see them liking the "less is more" aspects of Sims 4; that seems to outright aggravate some players that preferred the style of Sims 2 and even 3.
