User blog comment:Joey.eyeball/The Sims Wiki News - 2nd November 2014/@comment-4568327-20141102004820/@comment-11216247-20141102160720

You can either have it now, or pay fourty bucks for them to be included in three years or so. At least they aren't making us pay for something that got pushed out of their deadline. Besides, it's just the pool, in this case (toddlers nonwithstanding). It's a pretty small feature in the grand scheme of things, and you should probably be lucky that they're adding it in at all.