@TadOlson - Our styles of play are very different from each other. My worlds are not set in the seventeenth century or earlier and many of them have upwards of 250 residents. I do not wish to control that many households myself, anywhere from 2 to 10 out of what could be 80+ households in each world is plenty, but instead leverage SP to guide their progressions and their lives without my having to constantly intervene.
The school enrollment thing is not an issue for me because my worlds have multiple schools in them with plenty of ways for children and teens to navigate to them and get inside without routing issues or long bottlenecks at the door. I am familiar with AwesomeMod and used it myself for a couple of years before getting rid of it for other reasons, but even then I didn't need it to address school assignments. If one of my sims whom I would prefer to be homeschooled or attend a private custom school ends up in public school seconds after their age-up, or if for some odd reason all the children in town are enrolled in the same elementary school while the two others remain unused, it is not difficult for me to change these things around myself right away or as soon as I notice them.
I always thought one of the main objections you had to school auto-enrollment was that your towns' kids had to walk 4-6 hours to school each way, that's not going to happen in a more modern century with subways, taxis, and enough schools close enough to residential population centers so the kids can ride their bikes there if school buses are not rolling. But in my worlds, all resident children and teens are expected to be schooled, either at home or in formal school buildings. Much as in real life in quite a lot of the world today, there are no exceptions.
