Sim not responding immediately task/action

I've been having this issue a lot with and without mods, and my sims stand around or sit a lot as well doing absolutely nothing. Currently playing in my no mods/no cc save, which has never had any mods or cc used in it but this is still an issue. The issue worsens in larger households I find, but is still present in single households too. 

This happens to me too! And sometimes the game auto-cancels some actions. Like for instance playing on the computer - can't do it without pressing the chair and choose the option "sit" and THEN pressing the computer. Really weird

i'm currently noticing this exact issue, no mods, fresh save file. i own all packs except for a few kits. lots of times the sim also don't do the action at all, it's queueing up and stays there for several in-game minutes/hours until the game cancels it by its own. the sim either stands around or it does other tasks, most of time i have to tell my sim two or three times to do the task for it to actually do the task. 

After I pause and unpause the game my Sims get frozen and even when I reset them they don't move and are stuck in place and I can't press anything. My game hasn't crashed because of it though. I'm on ps5.

The moment I downloaded the Cottage Living expansion Nov 26, 2025 the game began to do this. I could live, but then I bought the Garden to Table pack and it has not been the same since. I bought an external drive with a terabyte and unlimited internet thinking it was the issue, but it was not. Giving up because I want more gameplay and build items, I recently took advantage of the publisher deal and bought over $99 worth of expansion packs- Get Together, For Rent, Island Living, Snowy Escape, and City Living and now it has become UNBEARABLE! It takes forever to load, and now it takes about 3 real life minutes and several clicks of an object for the action/task menu to appear then when I click she does not move, sometimes staying stuck for Sim hours, while gameplay like phone calls etc are happening. Moving the camera/scrolling to a different view? Forget about it! No CC. No Mods. This was reported 9 months ago but it's still happening.