I'm not entirely sure what the point of updating Wine is in the first place. If you have a version that works with the game you're trying to play, why not pin it? Things definitely tend to break with Wine upgrades by nature of what Wine does, that's why it's common for people to have multiple versions of Wine installed.
Y'all sure you don't have Sims 2 and Sims 3 mixed up? Sims 3 is rated Platinum on AppDB / Gold on ProtonDB (and I've ran it on Proton on multiple machines and distros without issue), whereas Sims 2 had a Garbage rating on AppDB for the longest time (apparently the Origin version is Silver now, but still).