The sims needs more drama.

All of this is true, nothing unexpected ever happens, every single negative thing in the game has to be forced by the player. Even the meteor death gives you ample time and plenty of warnings to get to your safe space. Instead of just BAM, too late! Which so have been ideal, and there no chance of it happening off screen at all. Everything is 100% player controlled to point of tedium, and often exhaustion. You can safely leave your game unpaused for hours upon hours and absolutely nothing of any consequence will happen at all.