Do you want pre-teens?

"TheGreatGorlon;c-17525190" wrote:

"eriindelle;c-17519703" wrote:
I do find the jump from child to teenager very jarring - especially since teenagers in the Sims 4 basically are just copies of young adults anyway. The only difference between the two is that young adults don't go to high school LOL. However, if the concept of adding another life stage is too much for the Sims team to develop and other simmers to accept, perhaps a better alternative would be to create a more realistic transition between the child stage and teen stage. I miss when they looked like actual teenagers in the Sims 3 - why can't we have that in the Sims 4?

"Metaphasic;c-17525158" wrote:
Despite wanting more immediate things fixed first, I answered YES. The jump from child to teen is a little too stark for my liking, adding a new life stage increases the overall lifespan of a sim, pre-teens have a completely different set of life challenges to overcome. I think it's a sound investment.

To answer both of these, you don't actually want pre-teens. You want the teenage life stage in game to reflect actual teenage years, and look like proper teens. I think a lot of people are conflating the faults of the existing teen life stage with the need to have a pre-teen stage. If the Teen life stage was designed properly, it would fill that void you're missing. Preteens are what? 10-12? That's not really a stage of life. There are no real challenges or developmental things happening here that don't fall under older children or younger teens. What challenges do they exactly face that are unique to those 2 years of life? 13 is the beginning of teenage years, when hormones generally start to kick in, and that actually starts to present unique challenges. But nothing prior to that really can offer anything different than kids or teens.