I'm now looking at this game as a subscription to which I pay every so often for new content. Like making a plane or even a Millennium Falcon from pieces on a magazine that comes out every week or so. I've got over six years of play out of it, roughly 6,000 hours, so it is worth while to me as I make and build whole communities not single Sims stories.
I bought Civilization 5 and only played it for a week. I didn't rant about it though. It's just a mistake I didn't make again.