To me snow depth isn't all visuals and it definitely isn't comparable to the backdrops of each world. It doesn't really matter which backdrop a world has to a Sim. A Sim will still look and behave the same. But with snow depth you see the lifestyle of a Sim changing: their feet sink, deeper footprints, deeper snow angels, they might have to shovel some snow away, etc. While these are all visual effects they do affect the Sim directly and it offers more realism. Something that a simulation game has to master if you ask me.
Now I am dissapointed that we have no snow depth. And that is not necessarily about the omission of that feature. Yes, I would have preferred snow depth, but the thing is it looks like we're not getting many in return. No beaches, no lounge chairs, no sunburn, no picnic, etc. And no new world, which they also decided because they "wanted to focus more on Seasons", but then where is the snow depth???? And the stuff that we are getting, is well, standard. It's just the same circle that many packs of TS4 have followed already. The same goes with C&D. They only had C&D included because they wanted to focus on those pets a lot, but then we didn't even had decent pet beds.
If you're not bothered by no snow depth, then I respect that. It's something that you have to decide for yourself. This is just how I see it.
