Maxis going in wrong direction with expansion pack gameplay?

i slightly disagree with what you said about snowy cause for me its the snow activities eating away budget for the japan inspired goodness i was hoping for and i wouldn't really care for sports or hotels as much as theme

but i feel pretty much every pack in ts4 could have been whole lot better if ea did better job at budgeting.

they often mention devs don't have "time or staff or money to add new animations"

and that people who make stuff then add random fun objects that do not need animation cause well they can't add animations which obviously is not devs fault but they really need to hire more animators and give them better budget cause obviously whatever it is now is not enough to make game truly shine

like what even is game with no gameplay

also as for pack themes I do hope they would make them more unique like what is the point if every pack has same items slightly altered give me something new

and when you make pack about theme please dont repeat it 5 times over do it properly the first time

id honestly rather have one ep a year if that meant it would be made properly and with enough unique content to call it ep