Will it be open world

@e048bf8gov8v , you have stated this beautifully! 🙌  I did not like the open world of TS3 either!  It was an empty world  because usually all the neighbor Sims would be inside their houses tending to their needs , or at work/school.  You wouldn't often see them walking around or at a community lot (park, nightclub, gym, museum, etc.). and when you did, they were often on their way home to replenish their needs, so you couldn't interact with them!  And if your Sim was the only Sim in the household and had late work hours, their only option for socialization was to meet other Sims, which was very difficult because nobody was out and about at midnight!  I found this painful to play with single Sims for this reason!  The only thing Ilike the open world for was to collect bugs, rocks, and look for unicorns! 🦄

And like you stated, you are still waiting for your Sim to arrive at the destination, whether there is a loading screen or not!  And after about a year and a half into the game, my game got so laggy, it would actually stop for several minutes, then start playing again, only to stop for several more minutes, over and over again, which would take waaaaay longer than a simple loading screen! And that is if the game didn't crash, which it often did!😖  My computer was supposed to be a mid level computer at the time, so it wasn't like I was trying to run the game on a potato. 

So, I actually prefer The Sims 4 semi open world (even if I can't go next door without a loading screen) because it doesn't take long to travel, and when I get to a destination, there are always other Sims to interact with!🥳
  Even though I am mostly a family player, this has made playing Single Sims much more enjoyable than in the Sims 3.  🙌 Quick loading screens are always better than halted gameplay while you wait for the game to catch up and continue, or a game crashing and taking 20 minutes to reload! 

And like you stated, if you purchase a variety of objects for your Sims to use at home, then it is much quicker both for you and for your Sims to just pop over to the chess table, for a bit, then go to the bathroom, then paint a painting, then work out, etc. than it would be to do all that on a community lot! 

The rotational play in the Sims 2 was so wonderful because we never had to miss a moment of our Sim's lives! 

The Sims 2 was by far the most fun version of the game, in part for the reasons you stated!🥳  It was the most addictive game I have ever played!  🥰