The Sims 4 juggled multiple ideas during development, but one idea from its predecessor that was eventually scrapped was the idea of an open-world city for players to explore. Instead, The Sims 4 offered smaller, instanced neighborhoods that were separated by loading screens, something that many fans considered to be a major step back from what The Sims 3 had achieved. So what was the reason for these smaller locales? The Sims 3 was notorious for how it pushed PCs…