Sorry. I don't want story progression. Culling is already bad enough in my created sims and the stories I try to make up in my mind about them. I can't even get my own sims to have stories. I can't imagine how bad it would be trying to play if the game made all the townies play out the games stories.
I really don't care if the barista my sim ordered a drink from last week has a kid. I don't need a notification that they met a new sim or got married. What I care about it that my sim remembers the sim I want them to for my OWN story progression.