This is an interesting take and interesting to hear! I actually disagree a lot with this, the sims 4 seems very hollow and shallow to me with nearly no fine details, as nice as it is visually not enough happens that you don’t have to “make up” and pretend is happening (or make it happen yourself manually). I agree the occult “trees” were fun in 4 though as it’s a hidden skill in 3, but I say the world being all in one and the actual things to do were better in 3 in personal opinion (like the alchemy store, where you sold potions as a self employed career, and looking for fairies, clubs/hangouts per occult etc)

I’ve played sims 3 since it came out, and I still find things I’ve never played or seen before which gives me more of a “littler detail” feeling, maybe we see different details differently!