I've never heard anyone say there was too much to do. I've only heard the opposite.
I have many expansion and stuff packs and often I get that feeling from the items that comes with them. Like when I'm decorating a new family's house, I tend to see so much stuff I want to make use of, but I don't put it in if it doesn't fit the setting or storyline of the family I want to play. So often I'm telling myself I really want to make more use of my packs, and I'm getting there at my own pace. That includes some of the gameplay that comes with some of these packs, and in some cases I may just briefly play a little with some gameplay element before playing with a storyline I'm interested in playing at the moment. For example I used one of the adult kids of one of my sims to play briefly as a mermaid just to see how that functioned, and with no real storyline attached.
