I started playing the game much less after the wants and fears update... my sims kept constantly getting fears, I couldn't even focus on playing one sim because then the other sims in that household felt ignored.
And I haven't updated my game since September either because I heard about sims being constantly mean to each other after the October update (loyal trait patch), which will hopefully be fixed in December so I can at least update my game and go online on the gallery.
And I don't really feel like building either because build mode is lagging so much (which can probably be improved by starting a new save but I don't want to do that). Other than that, the game runs fine but High School Years felt so incredibly lackluster that I have started playing other games instead...
I still boot up the game, but I feel less motivated to play it. Especially if I have to hope that modders fixes bugs that never seem to be fixed, I recently found a mod which fixes the distorted foxes from Cottage Living, that bug still hasn't been fixed since Cottage Living was released.