It didn't used to be this low, but it's been in a perpetual downturn for the past 3 years at least. Post-Seasons but before RoM, I would've been just at 'meh' levels, I was still playing Sims 4 religiously (my game hours are a testament to that) but I didn't start to get real irked until MFP, which was insulting to me. Around the time before RoM though, I finally started getting into modded play because I was getting more unsatisfied with what the game and packs offered, but I was still a bit timid about full modded gaming. Post-RoM though, the state of the franchise became overbearing and the game bugs frustrated so much I actually took a small break for sometime, only playing occasionally but no longer believing I could play unmodded while still having fun. I also started getting a bit more invested in Sims 3 again.
I was notably absent up till about Snowy Escape, when I took a mild interest in Sims 4 again, but the whole Korean controversy and the bugs still unresolved along with the whole Star Wars debacle not too long after or before this, completely deterred me from Sims 4 entirely for a long while. I didn't even get a chance to even try the pack's gameplay before I decided, 'this isn't worth my time anymore' either. This was when I was starting to long for the gameplay of Sims 2 and even Medieval. The current situation around the world at the time didn't help either, but I simply found better things to play or do when Sims 4 used to fill that void.
Through that time, the Kits were revealed, and I was wholly reviled against them, but tried to get back into the game to finish what I left behind around last Thanksgiving 2021, but I only focused on updating my existing Sims and builds with the content I didn't have since then, and rarely played the actual game and even when I did, it was fully modded. By this year, over half of my mods folder are now bug fix mods, overhauls, and/or replacements and improvements to the game and its systems, and have become thoroughly repulsed with the state EA has let the Sims team become with the churning out of Kits that I still despise, the broken state of MWS upon release, and how EA itself wants to play politics blocking entire countries from accessing their products, that I've now started to turn much more favorably then I was to the franchise's promising competitors.
