I think it's an incentive for kids and teens to gain other skills and not just do homework. Currently, mine mostly just plonk away at homework, now they have to think about if they need to be gaining other skills as well.
It's also a way for them to earn more money for longer and to pay for any expensive lifestyle without cheats if you do slow down aging or play on a longer span.
I like having different households with different levels of income and I don't mind some of them being well-off. Now, some of them will be more professional. I'm all for rags to riches and I sometimes play with sims who scrap along but sometimes it is nice to play ones who earn more.
I've currently booted him out of my game but the cult leader with a bunch of money is a different type of wealthy than a successful judge or professor. My wealthiest sims actually do need more to do, why not educate their offspring expensively like real ones do?
You can also now play that child of wealthy parents who slacks off vs. the hardworking kid who won scholarships.
I don't think it's about making the game easier but adding a different type of gameplay. I have wealthy jet-setter sims and sims in trailers and little starter bungalows who don't want to leave their home world. I've got a runaway teen scraping by, no idea if she or the other poorer sims will go to university. It'll be one more divider between her and other sims.
