ts4 doesn't strike for me as too girly but rather as too childish, it has a soft style that i understand it may not be for everybody.
i'd love for the game to also focus on their masculine playerbase, in fact i'd love if the game focused on everyone else besides teenage girls. yes, the game's main playerbase are teenage girls but that's because its who ea is marketing the game for, mostly. if they changed the perspective and tried to make it fun for a wider range of people, i think it would benefit the franchise a lot. it's said that The Sims used to have as much masculine playerbase as femenine one, everyone loved the sims! and it's no wonder. i don't know why is ea limiting their range of customers. it's great that despite ea's lame marketing plans, the game has managed to charm so many different people. it's the wonder of this franchise, it has so much potential and i really don't understand why does ea want to limit it.
many activities & content mentioned on this thread would be wonderful to have on the game.
and also more love for men on the game, they do really lack cas, not only in quantity but also in variety!