Have you started to disable/uninstall packs?

Have not disabled any packs yet

I have All EP minus For Rent, All GP, 14 SP, 25 kits

and this one save I have been playing since 2019 and yeah my computer is getting bit loud at times 😅

but I haven't run into major issues after that weird MWS issue where I had to downgrade some driver settings to make the game run at all again, sure some neighborhoods are more prone to crashing still like Glimmerbrook and Tartosa for some reason (which is strange cause I don't even have much anything in my Glimmerbrook to explain that and my more built worlds are fine 😅)

but other than that its been same-ish since I did that downgrade running quite okay I'd say considering my big save with zillion half complete builds and playing all the maxis sims all having their zillion likes and dislikes and turn on turn offs and whatever I have set them up with

Think I'm mainly trying to do population control as my first remedy tbh seeing if there is any sims I might shove on grims list as I go... well one good thing about mainly playing maxis sims is that I can always add them back if I regret removing them 😅 but so far no big regrets.

same with any builds that I keep, removing some unneded decor as I go to make them bit less demanding to run

I probably theoretically could remove some packs I use more rarely but I've just been using whatever wherever so it would be pain to rebuild all the builds/restyle all the sims affected so I feel like I probably won't unless I run into sim apocalypse and even then I'll probably be too heartbroken to start over 😅