Put a "Stop Generating Random Townies" Button in the settings

There definitely needs to be an on/off switch toggle for the random sim generating because the game will generate an unnecessary amount of sims just to have someone walk past my sims lot and nothing more.

Now I always delete about 95% of the sims from the manage household sections whenever I start a new game because if I dont my game lags more and my save file will slowly get more glitchy and I dont like any of default sims or randomly generated sims accessible from the manage household section (except for the default vampire sims living in lots) anyways. I would much prefer to see my own sims working stalls and working bars etc. which is what happens with most random jobs if I regularly delete the sims the game generates. I wish my sims would automatically fill the teacher and principal jobs from high school years though. I really dont like how the game automatically culls my ghost sims in my other households I'm not playing  (only ghost sims that died in live mode though, not ghost sims placed into the world directly from my library) for randomly generated sims but I dont know if thats still a thing with life and death out. Some of my unplayed ghost sims were being selected to work the stalls in the magic realm which was kinda funny though.

The game doesn't cull any of the sims in the other households tab for me unless they are ghost sims (only ghost sims that died in live mode though, not ghost sims placed into the world directly from my library) or ghost pets (ghost pets are always the first to go), So if I dont manually clean out the generated sims then it gets really bloated. I like that they don't get deleted from there though for when Im creating my own personal town and getting my created sims to work bars etc. but the game needs a toggle option for the sims it automatically generates.

I really can't understand why we need so many auto generated sims when we buy DLCs with lots of premade sims that only gets bigger with each EP/GP and could definetly fill most roles but don't.

I would love to have an option to turn off randomly generated townies; I'd prefer to just make my own.

This is exactly my feeling on it. I understand there was a need for them at the beginning of TS4, but at this point, we have so many premade sims that it simply clutters the game with sims in hideous outfits. I don't think the feature should be removed entirely because some people may still want them, but I know many more of us who loathe them and would celebrate an option we could toggle to prevent them from spawning. 

I'm on xbox series x console and the random sim generating definitely needs a toggle because if I don't regularly delete the randomly generated sims in the other household section of manage households my performance gets really bad/game lags, and I experience a lot more glitches in save files that I don't regularly purge the randomly generated sims. 

It would cut down by more than half if it didnt create a fresh townie every time you went to a bar club or sauna but instead used ones already in game .  I cull mine every sim week ; keeping the decent ones and culling the fuglies and still have over 300 townies , i dont need that many 

they keep putting them in my empty houses if I haven't played in a while. it's annoying. 

I certainly agree that we need some kind of NPC setting to stop the generation of townies. Imagine having 700 sims in your game and the game generates more to fulfill service jobs. I wish sims from our playable household could show up as the mailman for instance.