How 's Everyone's games playing since November patch and hot fix?

I nearly caved yesterday to update, but after re-reading these posts I managed hold off again when I reminded myself I don't need all the new base game extras, not if to have them is going to present problems.
My only thing about playing offline is that I can't poke around the gallery, but yesterday I chanced going online whilst playing, an found I could, I just had to make sure I went offline again. So for me, until there's some definite improvement, I'm not patching.