How Do You Feel About the Whims System?

I'd very much want them to update/fix whims. They are important to me as a way for my sims to tell me what they currently want to do, or what they want to consentrate on doing (ex skills and hobbies). As much as I enjoy the whim overhaul mod, I'd like to be able to play without it.

I've had it turned off since they defaulted to that. When the game was new I relied on it for reward points now and then. Now we have so many aspirations that I just use those or go partway through them to get quick points. I never really used whims to direct my sims before unless I felt it was their personality to do what popped up.
I don't really care if they update it and I certainly don't want it to turn into a positive/negative point thing like wants and fears. I don't want the game telling me how to play unless I have a choice to ignore it without ramifications.

I mean, I keep them on. They do not detract from anything more than the previous arbitrary desires of Sim entries. I can ignore them if I do not like the ones suggested or fulfill them if I do. It does not bother me too much.

However, it could definitely be a lot better. My inspired cooks should not necessary desire to paint and vice versa. They definitely would be more meaningful if they were more personalized and if the rewards store was updated more often I would care more about the whims in the first place. There has to be a reason I care about their arbitrary will or they will just follow mine, but to be fair they are not really unique enough anyway for me to exactly expect that either.

In conclusion: meh. I'd like it to be better, for sure, but the shallow nature matches the rest of it in a cart before the horse kind of way in my opinion. A better whim system makes a lot more fun for unique personalities, but you need the personality backbone.

the whims remind me of ts2 wants as well, when i first started playing ts4 i thought they made some sense and sometimes i would somehow guide the gameplay over them but i've realized that they're kinda random and repetitive.
i think whims should match traits and try to match situations more often. one of the few whims i get that fits a situation is when my sim flirts with another sim and they get the whim of wanting to kiss each other.
more situational whims would be cool, and adding more whims for more variety.
whims on the game are not my priority but they shouldn't be ignored as it's also part of the gameplay

They seem to random for me, and it does not look like they have been updated for a long time, I still see the same whims all the time, they are always based on your current emotion, are always the same no matter what sim you play and the one's where your sim wants to travel somewhere or buy something for no reason feels pointless. I often get whims like "buy a beehive" and stuff like that when not a single sim have shown interest in gardening or "visit the spa" if they are tense.

Maxis seems to have given up on them in the sims4.

I like whims because they give me a goal for my sims, but they desperately need updating to be relevant to the sims as individuals.

I use the whim overhaul mod and less materialistic whims. I'd love to see a bigger variety in whims.

I remember when first playing Sims 4 I was like, confused on where I was getting those satisfaction points from and how come I can now buy stuff like Always Welcome until I had to dig deeper. I wonder why they're turned off by default?

Whims are all right, I guess? I can take a look at mods though, very open about the idea of using them make them even better though.

I don't like it because they seem to be random, if they update it to be generated based on sims trait and relationship then I would play with it more, my gameplay is mostly driven by my sims wish/want in the past game, when I had some sims in mind to pursue as a spouse material but my sims somehow wanted to kiss another sims but the one that I chose, I let him be.

I loved wants and fears on TS2 and even wishes on TS3 were much better.

In TS4 whims are not only very small things they don't often accurately represent what a sim would want at that moment based on their life/aspiration traits. I know they are suppose to be correlated with traits but they don't seem to, since they are very generic and seem more repetitive than before (also due to lack of variety).

One of the things I loved about TS2/TS3 was when pregnant sims had the desire to have a specific baby gender, or read pregnancy books or buy children toys to prepare for the arrival of the baby.