I don't think I'm the only one. I would like to hear from others like me who are bored with the game and or the entire franchise. I think my boredom is starting to spill over into the entire franchi...
That game play you're talking about is the essence. The sims themselves had depth and reality, in effect wrote their own stories. Quite frequently those things in a TS2 game will take my ideas in totally different directions, me planning X, but Z happens on their own and it looks interesting enough to further explore and develop. As in RL, TS2 is dynamic and unpredictable. Quite absent in 4, which is everyone's loss.