Way too much phone action now during chatting

I'm not a great fan of phone use in TS4 nor in RL, but I can live with some of it but it's way too much as all sims seems addicted. If there was a way to remove this activity from certain sorts of sims... like some aspirations and traits could escape it. My biggest problem is that my game zooms into NPCs arriving the lot with the phone in their hand (assuming they are changing the color of their phone - I still don't understand why the game designers though it would be important for me to see that). At first I thought it was cool that the NPC sims' favorite color would actually be on their phone, and I thought that after all sims have changed their color it won't happen as often. But no - it's just a pose animation without purpose, the phone is not getting a new color.

I've grabbed a mod to reduce the phone activity. Hopefully developers will admit the problem and come up with some ways to reduce it.