Is The Sims A Virtual Dollhouse?

The article is super conflicted, and doesn't really hit the point where it should or develop itself enough to be meaningful. She starts off rambling about how it's not a dollhouse, but closes with a paragraph about how it wouldn't be a problem if it was a dollhouse because of the storytelling components. So is it a dollhouse or isn't a dollhouse, Gita at Kotaku? It sounds to me like the premise of her article should have been to tell us how the Sims IS a dollhouse, but then also how it's the evolution of the dollhouse to become something completely new and unique, yet still retain the childlike potential for imagination and immersion that draws people to dollhouses in the first place. That would have been a much richer article that could have really discussed the game as a series over 19 years, instead of her weird attempt to add gender dynamics into her article that honestly are irrelevant to the Sims as a game and series. The topic she started has potential, but it overall just felt half-cooked.