I, too, remember the heady first days of MTS2. It was so great back then. I can't remember when it turned into such a shithole. I just sort of gradually stopped going there, and now I only go for the d/ls, which are still pretty good.
It turned into a "shithole' because of the control freaks trying to tell the creators what they could and could not do when they were the first people learning how the game functions and started modding the game.
In the begining everyone was working together as it should be, sorely it is not the way anymore,
everyone started fighting, some of the creators lashed out then left the forum to find their own ways in the sims community, to bad it has to be this way, i bet we could have even better content by now? if everyone were working together.