This is why I cannot play this game anymore.....

So, so many extremely good points in this thread that I fully agree with.

I'll also add that we're over five and a half years into the game and the emotion system is still incomplete because there is no Fear. I fully believe that this alone contributes a whole lot to overly happy, shallow Sims. It's one less major "negative" emotion that we're playing with and it's a very prominent one as far as representation of human moods. Are they ever going to actually finish the base game?