Do you want pre-teens?

There are core issues that need to fixed. Unfortunately, adding another life stage would be something else to contribute to issues and detract from what appears to be a limited budget for other features that they could introduce into game.

Um, aren't preteens called kids?

Yes! Either pre-teens or at least improve the current teens so they aren't just thin young adults.

There is nothing special about pre-teens that they can't add in to teens or children. Another life stage would just take away from what we already have.

I would love another life stage... I this is because it is so unrealistic when a Child suddenly grows twice their size (becoming in Teen).

I don't want another life stage that will be pretty much ignored by most expansions and CC makers, and isn't really long enough, in my opinion, to be worth the effort. Proportionally, Pre-Teens would be maybe 4 days on normal lifespan, and there are probably better ways to represent that than a new figure with a scaled down, re-rigged wardrobe and modified existing animations.

I'd rather see that effort go to making more options available for kids and teens.

No, I think this is a pointless life stage that should just be lumped in with Teens. There's nothing really distinct about preteens that you can't do with kids or teenagers, and nothing really pivotal or iconic that defines this life stage like prom, etc.

I think Teens needed to have been built as a more unique life stage instead of just being young adults that get zits and go to grade school. I DESPISE that they're the same size as adults and young adults, and feel like this really detracted from them while simultaneously being an "easy out" in that they didn't have to make shorter models and design unique wardrobes for them. I think if they had been done this way, there wouldn't even be this conversation of needing preteens at all. So just give teens new, shorter models, and improve what needs to be improved about them, instead of trying to insert a "fix" life stage that should be what teens need to be.

I just think they should give more gameplay to existing lifestages I don't personally need more of them

especially since i don't feel like there is "preteen specific" gameplay that couldn't just be added for either teen or kid

and visuals i honestly dont care that much like i suppose they could make teens less of a ya clone but that is about it

Ideally I'd rather them spend time on Sims 5 to have dynamic aging so the differences aren't so drastic. I realize that'd make a bunch of cas issues but I'm sure they could find a work around for that. I'd settle for them changing teen to look younger. I hate that teen through elder looks the exact same.

No I don't want another lifestage. I would prefer they focussed on developing existing lifestages, like elders and maybe teens, more.