@xochiquetzl_xkvn , it takes a big person to admit that they might have been wrong on something! While you were certainly right about some Lifestyles being annoying, I'm glad you are now enjoying some of them! 😀
Also, my must have packs (not counting Stuff Packs and Kits) are also Cats & Dogs, Seasons, and Cottage Living! (I also really love City Living) My favorite SP is Nifty Knitting, but I knit and crochet in real life (as well as cross-stitch, so I was happy that was included in CotL!)
And almost all of my Supernatural Sims are also in large families, unless I'm testing something, or doing a Rags to Riches challenge with them, but even then they eventually end up with a family!
That said, because I test a lot of things , either when we get a new pack, or for some problem on AHQ, I often just have single Sims because if I don't need a family or pets for the test I'm doing, then it is easier to test with just one Sim . And while packs like Cottage Living are better tested with a family, some packs like Dream Home Decorator, it is easier to test and experiment with just a single Sim.
Which, @EA_Solaire , means that one of the Lifestyles that I end up having most often is Single & Loving it, which might be fine while testing something, but If I really like that Sim and want them to have a family once the testing is over, it makes it very frustrating! Normally I'm a family player!!! I just sometimes need to strip down my normal gameplay in order to experiment with certain packs or to test something out quickly for AHQ! 😅
After that, with all the testing, my two most often generated Lifestyles are Outdoorsy (because I love gardening and collecting in the game), and Close-Knit! 😀
And I'm all for animal based Lifestyles!!! 🥰🥳