I loved Sims 2, but Sims 4 is a migraine to deal with, always lagging, and having bugs all the time. They literally do nothing with the game. I'm so annoyed, yet I still play it. I have nothing else t...
Mods helped me in this case, it's much easier to play the game if I can use mods to get rid of things that I find annoying.
Try playing other households as well, some households makes me irritated sometimes, so I play mostly households that I enjoy playing with.
I'm not sure what you can do about the lag, I get lag sometimes on my computer as well and I have a gaming desktop PC. It feels like the game performance is not very great sometimes.