EA made Maxis convert what was supposed to be a successor to The Sims Online into a mainline Sims game. The result is that there was a lot of content that previous games had which was missing at release. Iirc some of it was stuff like pools and cars. Some of it, like pools, has been restored since then, but stuff like cars is still missing.
Edit: one of my biggest personal complaints is the lack of world-editing tools. A modder has hacked in some janky world-editing tools since then, but it took something like 6-7 years for someone to do it.
EA made Maxis convert what was supposed to be a successor to The Sims Online into a mainline Sims game. The result is that there was a lot of content that previous games had which was missing at release. Iirc some of it was stuff like pools and cars. Some of it, like pools, has been restored since then, but stuff like cars is still missing.
Edit: one of my biggest personal complaints is the lack of world-editing tools. A modder has hacked in some janky world-editing tools since then, but it took something like 6-7 years for someone to do it.