User blog comment:LostInRiverview/The Sims Wiki Monthly Question - May 2014/@comment-2201555-20140501002942

I'm not really sure. I wouldn't say the game is as much difficult as it is tedious thanks to technical shortcomings, as K6ka explained below. I'd say it's easy with 1 or 2 Sims but can get more and more difficult when you have more, which is understandable.

Maybe it could be more difficult on one side of the spectrum and easier on the other, idk. It's pretty hard to balance these things out but I can understand it being deliberately easy in order to target a casual audience. TS3 is literally the only game my girlfriend plays, besides lol-worthy iOS games like Candy Crush, so you can see what they're working towards.