Do you think The Sims 4 = Failure?

I don't think the game is bad, per se, but for the amount of money I've already sunk into it, I expected a more enriching experience. There's not nearly enough content for a game with so much DLC. The "game packs" don't add enough to flesh out the game and I would never waste my money on useless "stuff packs" with only a couple of items I'm going to like (also, why didn't they create a Store where you can buy items a la carte like the last game? I would be much more willing to spend money when I know I want every item I'm buying). And not only have they failed to deliver original content in the game, but they've basically strangled the custom content community's ability to create in order to have nearly-complete control over that content like they've always wanted, which means the experience is lacking to begin with and the fans can't even expand on it themselves the way they used to.

I find myself getting bored so quickly with this game. And it's not like I don't want to play it, I really want to love it, it's just that doing the same things over and over again with the tiny amount of content gets old very fast. In terms of gameplay, I feel like for every step forward that the game takes, it takes 3 steps back, and that's not a good thing for a sequel, especially a sequel to a game as massive as Sims 3.