Personally I love the acting career. It's my favorite active career. I play in rotation, and I was only able to get my actor to one gig per rotation for a while until I changed the number of days with each household, so he has not yet actually gotten his third fame star yet.
My other sims not being able to introduce themselves to him is a minor annoyance I have had for a while. I can introduce him to anyone I want when I'm playing him though. So far his family hasn't lost the ability to talk to him or anything.
It does take a long time to build fame for anything but acting, especially in rotational play. But I find it pretty fun. I do use the drone a lot to stream so that my sims can use their online presence to get fame without always having to be sitting at the computer to do it. I enjoy the open mic nights and the award ceremony. I haven't tried the meet and greet yet.
Celebrities have very rarely gotten in my way on community lots. It is annoying when it happens, but I've had a lot less trouble with it than others appear to. At 2.5 fame stars my actor is getting a small number of fans when he goes out in public, but no paparazzi yet so I can't say how annoying that will be.
I rarely pay attention to the little pack icons in build mode or in CAS but I do know that a couple of my favorite hairstyles came with GF. I also use the costumes a lot because I like to throw costume parties by making everyone's party outfit a costume of my choice, using all the options from every pack that comes with costumes.
I bought it at 50% off last year and would do it again for that price without hesitation.
