Not Wanting Sims 5 Because Spent Money On Packs

I'm getting tired of the DLC partitioning model. Since The Sims 2 codified The Sims experience we've been playing the waiting game. That is, the iteration comes out and then we sit for a few years until the features that we want are implemented through DLC. Then the new iteration comes out and we go back to vanilla. I'm not sure that I'm interested in doing this for the fourth time, and even less sure that I want to purchase what is essentially the same game.