I was thinking yesterday that if the team is currently working on freeing babies they might have taken some of the people responsible for gameplay and animation from the GP team to help them out with doing babies right.
I noticed that the packs that have been released in the time frame the free toddler update came had less gameplay than others.
If that were the case again, I'd be fine to get a GP that is more focussed on Buy Mode in the meantime. I mean, there are a lot of Simmers that prefer building over gameplay anyway.