User blog comment:K6ka/Reddit list of what's missing in The Sims 4... and it doesn't look good/@comment-1140008-20140818012249

That's absolute terrible. And I don't blame a single bit of it on the SimGurus. Starting out with a whole new engine means that they have to start from scratch. If EA hadn't pushed the "always online thing" for most of its development (which we've seen from Olympus), then they would have had 2+ years to focus on adding other content.

At least EA got their act together and changed the direction of the game after the SimCity disaster. The only problem is they still wanted the product at its original release date. They should have pushed the game back at least another full year, if not two. If they did that we'd be getting the game the SimGurus want us to have, and the game we would truly enjoy.