@lanlyn I had that mod for a short while but decided to remove it when I started making videos for YouTube.
I have a mod that asks if I want to scold or not and I usually say No. And my little sims don't usually stay out late, unless I forget about them and haven't told them go home. I don't recall being asked if they need to be scolded or not. I would just click No if asked.
There are a lot of limitations to Sims 4. I think they were trying to avoid some of the pitfalls that come with all the different things that can be done with Sims 3. I remember when I first got Sims 3. After getting the idea of how to play I was immediately frustrated by the limitation of 8 sims per household. I'd had the original Sims but didn't get Sims 2. I was about to get Sims 2 when I discovered Sims 3 was about to be released and decided I'd pre-order Sims 3 instead. I am happy a series of mods allows me to have overstuffed households. Sometimes unexpected things can happen - such as never-ending alien pregnancies. But most things can be overcome with a bit of research. I do have to watch the memory usage.
I seem to have fixed that issue with this game for the moment. I think all I needed to do was to evict them and move their house to the library and bulldoze it before returning the library version to the lot and putting the sims back into it. But I'd already decided I wanted to send them to a different world. I'm thinking a later generation might have a horse for a while now that they are in Appaloosa Plains. I'd like to have them go riding around some of those trails in the world. I don't usually play with horses but have had them a few times.
I don't usually have much of a problem with controlling all of the sims in the household. I make sure they have full autonomy. This keeps them relatively happy most of the time and allows me to discover some new and surprising things sims get up to occasionally. When I want to prepare them to move out, I start queuing recipes and fishing bait books and keeping most of them busy with that while I focus on one or two others, so it isn't much different from having a smaller household. I usually find small households get a bit boring after a while - depends on the sim - and start adding extra household members.