So what happened to those continued updates?

I'm still having issues. I have deleted all mods and CC. For some reasons, my sim cannot introduce themselves to anyone, order food at a vendor or food counter, I have to go to manage world to get my game to save and even then it's a 50/50 chance it saves, and I don't get the option to follow my sim to high school. I have "repaired" the game through Origin countless times. I have tried everything I know to do, everything that has been suggested to plus what I've anything found on Google that I hadn't tried. I don't know what else to do. I have never been so disappointed with this game as I have been for the last few weeks. This is beyond ridiculous. Any and ALL suggestions are welcome along with EA releasing a patch to fix these things. After searching, I know I am not the only one having these issues.