Not really? I mean even in the trailer it tells you what careers will be active. Never really implied that ALL jobs will be interactive. Pretty much like ambitions in the sims 3. The jobs in CL you can surprisingly work from home with which is nice. I actually don't find that to be a money grab since gtw was one of My favorite Ep's. Though I hope they make more jobs like that to work from home.
CL isn't that bad. Most of my disappointment was apartments being locked to one world, but I still like my sims being able to rent an apartment. If they were to add the political career in a patch it'd just be a rabbit like hole job like the others. There's always mixed reviews with just about any expansion in sim games.
Best way to find out is to play it yourself and form your own opinion as its always a different experience when you play something via someone like on youtube.