I think I agree with the general point here. Though I would hope certain things like the water, dream big, and react in disgust are not elements of "game design" and are bugs instead. Of course, I could understand how someone would consider a long-standing bug to be an intentional part of the game's design and I'm at that point with a few things as well.
If I had to think of a system in TS4 that was guilty of the issue discussed above without necessarily being bugged the first one to come to mind would be the text messaging. Not only are they repetitive, but they're relentless. Particularly after the reputation system was added which just gives other sims all the more reasons to message you the same things over and over and over again. The fact that there's no variation in the messages at all makes them feel robotic and impersonal and it's hard for me to take them seriously.
