User blog comment:Knc1w2h3n4c5t/The Sims 4 is NOT Open World - Thoughts?/@comment-1692461-20140623222633/@comment-2201555-20140623230559

Don't worry, eventually it'll turn out that those "required trade-offs" are complete bull and we'll get swimming pools and taller houses in a new expansion or DLC. Let's hope they figure out how to do texture streaming too (so the map sizes can be larger).