How Do You Feel About An Online Sims Game?

My main hangup with online has to do with the business of games and where they've ended up. Online usually means more predatory monetization. It means things like free to play with microtransactions, where they look for anything and everything they can to up the amount of money you're able to spend on the game.

I do think an optional co-op mode is not quite the same as a fundamentally online version of the sims, though I'm not sure the development and design focus is worth it when this game's audience seems to be primarily interested in a near-complete-control life simulation single-player. Anybody else in the mix means less personal control over what's going on and that would clearly be a dealbreaker for a significant portion of people who play this.