Sims 3 didn’t have DLC, it had Expansions 😛 . Sims 4 is a travesty. The original is more fun to play, and in some aspects isn’t as limited as 4 (crazy, right?). I spent a lot of time with the second and third games, I couldn’t tell you which one I’ve spent more time on (probably 2).
These days I can’t even play 3. It’s just so unoptimized it’s painful to run, and it was never as much fun as the second game anyway. People criticize the fourth game for removing the open world, but I never really saw much use for that in a Sims game anyway, most of it was empty space that ate up valuable resources.