Another thing I think they should really consider is that it actually takes away representation. They put all of this effort into marketing the self-avatar, playing your own life, but there's a HUGE oversight there with their older, core player base. Many, many people who play this game grew up without modern technology and might want to play out their childhood and teen years or a similar lifestyle that's familiar to them but they can't. This catering to a specific, trendy, younger group is ageist and isolates their own loyal players who have stuck with this game from the early editions. It's very shortsighted and it's why this game is unrelatable to so many people.
No life consequences or challenges and no retro lifestyles. There are many people whose lives have not been a safe space with the luxuries of modern tech. Why is it treated as forbidden for those people to have representation too? Sometimes life is just hard.
