Should I get Lovestruck?

Well, if you go back and forth between households, you'd have to worry about the "Relationship/Romance Decay" that happens to sim couples when you're not actively playing that household itself.  At least that's what it seems to be the case from what I understand anyways.

1. Lovestruck is less unpredictable and more "random" and "realistic" in a sense. Random as in the game randomizes turn-on and turn offs, and it randomizes all 50 on every sim in the world so they are very random and doesn't make sense. That said, the turn-on and turn offs don't prevent you from romancing anyone. Realistic as in the pack makes romance more difficult to sustain with the new romance satisfaction mechanic, so it's more about having a healthy relationship, if I understand correctly you are also playing with an occult so it depends if you find these mechanics a fun addition to playing with an occult sim.  
2. There is a new romance skill and romance career. It's more realistic and I think it's very subjective if one likes it or not. Romance in lovestruck is focused a lot on talking and discussing things with your partner. The new dating app and the new customizable dates are the less interesting parts of the pack imo. This pack adds more challenge to romance, and keeping it sustainable it doesn't really add more goals to aspire to more than keeping things as you would like them to be.
3. Yes. 
   1. Romantic satisfaction decays over time and this appears to happen to households that you are not playing so you can play a household for a week and come back to another one and watch as their romantic satisfaction is rock bottom.
   2. There are new fears which can tank your romantic relationship. 
   3. The devs added adult couples dating to all lots in the game, I really didn't like this as this removed unique NPCs who liked to visit gyms, libraries, bars etc. If there are no park benches they will just stand in the middle of the lot doing nothing.
   4. Turn-on, turn offs are randomized on all sims in your save and it's like I wrote all 50 of them, which are way too many and are way too random.

However, they have listed romantic satisfaction on the laundry list for the upcoming patch so it's possible that it might solve some issues relating to it and there are also mods that can remove some of these annoying features from modders like lumpinou and littlemssam.

So, if I understand you correctly, the new Romance Dynamics (Steamy, Strained, Unpredictable, Wholesome) don't really do much of anything. The only effect Lovestruck has on legacy game play is that it makes finding a spouse and maintaining a happy marriage more complicated, which can be seen as a positive or a negative depending on preference. It does have level up mechanics, but those aren't very well developed, so not really an ideal pack for that sort of thing. 

I don't care about the new fears, since I keep wants/fears turned off, but losing the "regulars" from the community lots would rob those lots of part of their appeal.☹️

BissenNess wrote:

So, if I understand you correctly, the new Romance Dynamics (Steamy, Strained, Unpredictable, Wholesome) don't really do much of anything.

The Romance Dynamics do not affect the relationship, they describe it. It's just a label for the style of relationship your sims have and the relationship style is controlled by the player. It's Steamy if they woohoo a lot and Wholesome is they kiss but don't woohoo or woohoo just a little. There are different interactions available depending on the romance dynamic and you can work to improve it, for example, from Strained to Steamy, depending on the story you want to tell.

The romance dynamic describes their relationship and they have a chance to do certain interactions more often. I'm not sure what one could do with legacy gameplay when it comes to lovestruck.

Yeah, the difference with lovestruck installed and not installed is crazy when it comes to NPC spawning, I'm surprised that not more people seem to have noticed it.

The 50 turn-on and turn-offs seems kind of crazy too, I have an old save which I love very much which has around 1000 sims in it. That means that this pack will assign 50,000 turn-on and turn-offs to all sim in that save.

No!

i bought the pack at the end of March and I've passively used the dates and romantic satisfaction. I've seen no bugs or problems with these. As a builder, the build styles don't fit my tastes but lots of the décor and furniture make their way into lots of my builds. This was the second to last ep I bought (the last being get famous, which was the last one I hadn't bought). The world is alright, not amazing not horrible. Cupid's corner is nice and useful but I wish you could customise it a bit more. 

Overall, I personally enjoy having this pack in my game, the romance overhaul helps. But at the end of the day, it depends on your taste and play style. 

I love the world.  It is unique.  There are a variety of different sized lots too.  I like the dating app for my singles, especially since it pulls singles in that others have shared..  Other people’s sims definitely beat game generated sims.  I like the blanket objects, the neon lights, the costume suitcase, and the singles lot trait. I like some of the clothes, hairstyles and build objects, and the new profession. I haven’t explored the lizard like creatures yet.  There are even new traits and romance likes and dislikes. 

I haven't had issues with Lovestruck, but I use control settings in Options and MCCC. In the game's Options, I turn off Neighborhood Stories and use MCCC settings instead. I also turn off Wants & Fears as well as Friendship & Romance auto Requests & Breakups. MCCC also has settings for Friendship & Romance Decay Rate and Difficulty that help too. 

In CAS, I don't use Turn-Offs and Turn-Ons for my own Sims. I also change the one setting for guiding romance reactions about getting jealous for non-physical flirting to No. The others I leave on Yes.  

I've enjoyed the rest of Lovestruck's gameplay, world, and BB-CAS. My sims don't do a lot of task-driven dating, so can't say much about that. 

Thanks everybody for your input! It really helped me make a decision. Some of the Lovestruck features sound interesting, but taken altogether, the cons outweigh the pros for me, so I won't be getting Lovestruck after all.