Why does everyone hate city living?

I hate it because it offers nothing really game changinly new. It honestly (to me) felt like a slightly bigger world pack from the sims 3 but definitely not an expansion pack. Also I despise 90% of the CAS and build buy stuff and the new world (to me) is horrible and bland and just really, really, really small for a supposed city. I also don't understand why singing was the skill when it could have been used later on for like a singing career. I feel like street art could have been a separate skill instead. Also elevators having no animation was not only incredibly lazy from the team but just an overall silly and lackluster design choice. It's really annoying to me that I can't have my own elevators in my sims homes and businesses. And finally everything new is locked to the new world. I can't have apartments in Willow Creek. There will be no festivals in Oasis Springs. It was just (I feel) a very lazy and half hearted expansion that took a year to make. If this took a year to make them I'm honestly worried about future Expansion Packs because City Living was not up to scratch (in my opinion) and I feel like the team could and should have done a tonne better when it came to design choices with this pack.
I bought city living for half price (where I live that's $25) and I still feel like I paid too much for it because It added nothing much new at all. :neutral: