First of all: How is it that everyone complained about rabbit holes and now that they are gone, people still complain. I’d understand if we had ever been able to see our Sims at work or school, but we could never do that. And honestly, I don’t even want to do that. When I come home from Uni or work, I don’t want to watch my Sims study and work. It’s a bloody game!
Nothing has been confirmed about pools yet! If there was no chance of us getting them, they would have said so. They did tell us about CASt, about pets and weather. So them not telling us anything about pools is them telling us that they could still make it in there. It could even mean there is something special about them and they want to show it off later on. We can’t complain about stuff we don’t know!
The open world and CASt took away lots of development time. Because of that there was a giant lack of items, clothing and hair styles in the Sims 3 base game. And even though they took so long to be created, both features were experiments. And they didn’t work out. They cost Sims 3 so much performance and stability, it’s not even funny anymore. Not to mention all the Sims and cars getting stuck because of the bad routing in the open world. I am happy that those two are gone!

“Realy TS3 base game was the best base game. Full of great clothes, hairs and many things to do…”
Now this sentence makes me believe you never played the Sims 2 base game. That was the best base game of the series and that’s not even an opinion, it’s fact! Much more clothes, much better clothes, much more hair styles, much better hair styles, much more items and lots of them had even been copied over into the Sims 3 base game. Sims 2 had way more interactions, Sims felt more alive, they were more charming and the animations were beautifull! I have to admit, animations in Sims 3 were still beautifull but only because most of them had been reused from Sims 2!

Now don’t get me wrong: I still love Sims 3! But in all honesty, the base game was shit! I played it for one week and then went back to Sims 2 until World Adventures was released. I didn’t start playing Sims 3 regularly until Late Night was released. And that means something with a person who is as obsessed with Sims as I am!