2025 Sims stress: Anyone else?

Game not working... I have no mods and I have every DLC pack. EA is updated, the PC is updated, etc. I have noticed with every patch and DLC in 2025 the game gets a little more dodgey, (one of the patches/updates in February or March, caused every Sim to become an elder and that was the beginning of the end. After the July patches, the problems made the game so frustrating with playable and NPCs unable to interact, pets freezing in place, being unable to give Sims commands, I unistalled everything. I reinstalled every pack and it mostly worked ok. Last week, I was playing just "fine" and the next day, I created a family and every outfit for each one of them became the winter outfit, the hair and accessory choices did not stay, whatever I did in build mode did not save. Now, the game will bring me to the map, I pick a family and it kicks me back to the map screen or the main screen to load a game. I have been playing this game literally since it came out 25 years ago. It is my favorite game and it is my mental health escape. I am just super sad and disappointed with how the gameplay is becoming progressively worse instead of better. I am not looking for perfection just to be able to play. Do I have to unistall everything again? This was literally done a month ago. Thank you for the space to share.