The comments their teams aren't as large was debunked by one of the CMs who stated, no TS4's teams are even more people working than before. Though people pointed out TS3 had two teams for EPs but the CM stated TS4 teams still have many more workers. I have to take them at their word that yes, TS4 has many more on their teams than TS2 or TS3 did.
Nobody's saying the team isn't as large as it was before. The point is they have to push out a lot more packs now then they did in TS2 and if they had a larger team or they didn't have to push out as many packs they'd be able to do more with each pack.
Sims 3 had 20 packs in total (incl stuff packs),
Sims 2 had 18 packs in total.
Sims 4 has a total of 34 packs already. That's almost double. Now it doesn't take a genius to work out that having to push out a lot more packs in the same timeframe = less content in each one.
Plus, do you really think EA has no control over their games and they just let the companies under them do whatever? They have a reputation as the most hated video game company for a reason. The company is famous for acquiring smaller companies and milking their games as much as possible with sub par content.
Maybe actually read my points and have a discussion rather than insisting that other discussion points are just "excuses"?