The Sims 4 lacks story and depth

I totally disagree with you on toddlers, but agree on everything else. The lack of content for any lifestage that isn't a young adult, the lack of distinct personalities, the lack of any sort of family play, the lack of natural depth among the characters, all of those are reasons why I think TS4 is failing as a life simulator. Plumbella said this in a recent video, it's basically just a modern millennial simulator where you live up your young adult life partying hard, focusing only on yourself, while the other life stages are basically deemed irrelevant. Packs are just about adding more and more stuff (for young adults), and there's nothing to actually make the sims themselves more interesting. Emotional response to situations is also just wack, as sims can cheat on their partners in front of their family and they react like 'whatever'. Traits just add moodlets, whims literally only exist to advertise new pack content (and now even they seem to have been phased out), the gender settings do nothing to actually control who your sim has interest in, there's no substance and no depth to the characters.