@Brieme I certainly have not experienced many of the issues you have raised. The game is far from perfect, but for me, it is certainly playable. The only issues I have are the sometimes excruciating loading times that really does impact the immersive experience, sound and animation getting out of sync after fast-forwarding time, some graphical artefacts like a blurred vision of San Myshuno and the occasional hits to performance when multiple things are going on at one time.
I do agree the controls are quite difficult, especially the cursor which seems to have no way of changing its acceleration. This does make it challenging to click on small UI elements (almost a game in itself). Aside from that, I think the controls will just take some time getting used to. I would like to see a slider at least for the cursor's acceleration. That would make the controls somewhat more bearable.
The only real issue I have encountered that forced me to restart the game was when I zoomed out to quick travel and it just would not load the world map. The loading overlay appeared, however, I could still see my sims going about their automonous lives while being completely unable to back out or even open the pause menu. I gave it more than enough time to respond - almost 3 minutes but it just seemed to be stuck at the loading sequence.
I envision more hot fixes and updates will increase the stability of the game over time and make it an absolute pleasure to play The Sims from the sofa and a lot more akin to its PC counterpart.
