I don't play the sims; I make content for the game. I am vehemently disappointed with the removal of many features I utilized.
I don't understand the "completely rebuilt" argument; they completely changed their direction for the game, and then pushed it out of the door before it was done. Miyamoto said it is better to delay a game to make it good, because a bad game is bad forever *cough*SporeSimCityandnowTS4
I also don't understand the depth of features argument; too many people have returned the game for it to really be satisfying. It doesn't matter how deep 5 features run; if you're doing the same five things over and over again, it is going to go stale (like it apparently already has.)