I'm getting that impression too.
I play and watch other games on twitch and follow a fair bit of gaming news on twitter... the general impression I'm getting that people feel about the sims is no different from how people view EA in general. And that is that they are focused on making money. They are often referencing other games from EA and how expensive they are. It's not uncommon when sims is shown people write "cash grab" or "hundreds of DLC". They also like to reference the old sims games because they probably played them or watched people play them on Youtube.
A lot people also wonder when the sims5 will be released and lot of gaming news accounts that I follow don't mention the sims, ever. It's old news.
I like to tweet about games but I have a hard time tweeting about the sims because it feels like they are living in their own bubble, it doesn't feel like there are many other simmers that tweet and play other games, which I don't think it's true, they just don't tweet much about them.
I think it would be easier if the sims twitter and other people from the community was not so much excited over everything but instead talked about the sims for what it is and don't say "this is the best pack ever" just because they see a bunny in a dress.
Unfortunately there are no people like that left, except maybe Carl from the Carl's Sims Guides, and maybe also James Turner. LGR doesn't really do much sims anymore.
