User blog:MechaCharizardX/The Sims 4 ruined the franchise

I own every main series Sims game, except the Sims 4. My first game, the Sims 3, I got a few months before the release of the Sims 4. I knew it was coming out. I knew everyone was hyped. I thought it looked bad compared to the other Sims games. So now the Sims 3 is one of my favorite games. When I got the Sims, I noticed that the Sims 4 had taken the same map view, make tons of families and place them all. And when I got the Sims 2, I noticed how it had the same cartoony look about it. It took a lot of inspiration from those games. But not enough I feel from the Sims 3. I don't completely hate the game. Why, when I played it on Origin for 2 days, I liked the multitasking and how the customization is improved a lot. But the game has many flaws. Why did we have to wait for a patch to get swimming pools, but violins were always there? What happend to create-a-style, a thing that I personally loved? What happened to a whole open ended world were you could build and explore anywhere? And what did they do to the traits? Now Sims can only have 4 traits, one decided on their lifetime wish! Even the Sims and the Sims 2 personality bars were better! And most of all, what happened to toddlers and babies. The Sims had babies, but they were more or less objects that you could not control. The Sims 2 added toddlers, and they were great. You could make them in create a sim and teach them. Even babies were improved to actually be Sims, not objects. The Sims 3 improved on the aspect and kept the toddlers and babies the same. But the Sims 4 took a leaf out of the Sims 1 book and made babies objects and removed toddlers. Why. Just why. Toddlers had always been big. But at least the Sims 4 is better than the Sims freeplay. That game was horrible. Even with cheats.