I'm pretty sure almost every thing you mentioned has been hashed and rehashed to death by now.
I suppose most of us still with the sim have learned to cope with or ignore these issues and love it anyway. Those that couldn't have either tried to correct them by coming up with mods that address the issues or they have simply moved on.
Not really much point in dwelling on the sim's shotcomings now I think.
From what I hear there is a GW style mod in the making...so wait I would say.
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