"insofar as a white cube denouncing a missing resource (the phone receiver) envelops the sim as it makes or answers a call."
Yep, it's the same in my game.
You have 3 way's to baypass this group resource problem.
1. make your own undecrapified but recompressed phone.package
2. use AM
3. use a phonefix.package
4. hope for an decrapify tool update
Has anyone else noticed that oddly (or not), the island from the new Villa Kitchen set isn't CAST-able?
Counter don't work correctly as undecrapified packages.