The new Sims 4 start screen is by far the best it's had in a decade

As part of a handful of 25th anniversary updates, The Sims 4 start screen just got a big overhaul. My first instinct was of course to recoil in the face of a major visual change, because even small tweaks to social media feeds activate the human fight or flight response—and this redesign in particular initially had me thinking I should be asking the squad where we're dropping. But after deactivating my amygdala, I think this start screen is a major improvement over every Sims 4 start screen we've had in the past decade.