While I like the game, I too would like to be involved more in the gameplay (or at least have the option to be as involved as you like: have it like this where you play for 5 minutes then leave them alone for several hours, but also some things you could do so you could play for longer at a time and have more reason to come back more often than every few hours).

Example: they even feed themselves while you're not playing. Would be nice if you had to do at least something like that yourself, and make sure they don't starve. Now all you need to do is make sure their fridge doesn't go empty.

I also realise that the house needs to be improved over the generations in this game (and spread out the gameplay a bit), but when they have plenty of money, it really doesn't make sense to leave gigantic holes in the floor. No real reason to leave these for later generations to fix, and you're only forced to this course of action because you're dependent on the store to carry the right item so you can fix it up. I realise that it's nice if you spread things out a bit, so that you can't do EVERYTHING there is to do in the game on the first day, but I do still like things to make a bit of sense.