Sims obsessively use objects

OMG, I made the mistake of putting a cross stitching basket in my game. Within minutes ALL 5 family members of all ages were cross stitching and would not do anything else. This is the worst overuse I've ever seen in the game. I had to delete the basket. It's unplayable.

Hi again.

This is one I've noticed for a long time. If you even graze the mixology skill, there is a bar on the lot and your sim is inspired, it becomes a perfect storm of your sim wasting money constantly making drinks for no one, not even themselves most of the time. They just make the drink and walk away. Sometimes multiple drinks, and since each drink costs money it becomes a complete waste of funds. Sadly, the Fresh Chef reward trait won't save the drinks either as bar drinks don't have their timer removed, so they just sit there and rot unless you force your sim to drink everything or throw it out. A lot of times they do this while I'm tending to other sims. They will sneak over to the bar and waste money making drinks for the air I suppose. it would be nice if they could be tuned to tone down the drink making somewhat, or at least drink what they made so it doesn't go to waste. This report comes from a PlayStation player.

Thank you.

Sims are always dancing if music is playing on any lot type. 

This issue is so annoying, you cannot play music in stores, restaurants, funerals, etc. as sims will drop any action and just dance regardless if it makes sense or not. Can we limit autonomous dancing to nightclubs/bars only? Or we need an option on speakers that allows us to choose if we want sims to be able to dance autonomously dance or not from a specific speaker. 

Sims constantly pull out their phone to look at it. They're talking to someone - the phone is out. They're standing there doing nothing - the phone is out. There's not even an action indicating the phone is being used.

The animation for looking at the phone appears unexpectedly, makes no sense and is excessive.

This is very irritating.

This time phone is used when talking to someone (but it happens also when idle).

And there is no phone action in the queue.

I would prefer a lot option that we could use on lots where we don’t want Sims to dance if music is playing, especially on funerals or in churches.

Independent Sims are using phones in the same way too - when talking, when idle. I don’t control them, how it’s going to be fixed?

Why the cooldown period will not be introduced with phones? Computer will have it, crochet basket too, some other things too.

Why I have to set every Sim to dislike phone in order to stop excessive use? I have to do it to every-single-Sim?

I still want to use phone to call other Sims, play, etc. - I understand now Sim will receive negative moodlet because I have to set preference to ‘Dislike phones’. What is the logic here? Why can’t we have normal phone usage without negative mood set?

All Sims are using phones too much.