Am I the only one who never cared to play families or with ageing on?

I play in a similar fashion. I've only played two actual families in my entirety of the Sims and that was a single parent with a kid in college (neither of them ever aged) and recently a single parent raising a single child from birth and up... and the only reason I am doing this is to try to do a save that has my Sim do everything... well almost. I might make a second save where things branch off so one follows the path of a "good Sim" and another for a "bad Sim".  Either way, the only aging in this so far is the kid via blowing out some candles. Nobody else has aged meanwhile.

Typically, family game play isn't my thing. Dating and weddings aren't my thing either. Having to manage romantic relationships all the time is too much of a pain. Give me "The Dating Game". Once they have gotten gold dates and full romance... There. Done. They will be together happily forevermore and I will have them whoo-hoo in interesting places when I want something silly. Otherwise, they are working jobs, doing hobbies, gaining skills and collecting stuff - which is my main game play. I want "all the things".

On the side, when following tracks has gotten a bit boring, I have had a tendency to kill Tragic Clowns for the good of Sim-kind... despite my Sim was the reason it was summoned in the first place... and torture Sims that become too aggravating to me. They tend to live, though. The Tragic Clown is fine since I consider it supernatural... you kill it (unfortunately you often have to add it to your household for an interesting kill), but another one can be summoned soon after. It is a shame they aren't the way they were in the OG Sims: a shmuck named Sonny who bothers your Sim until your Sim becomes happy enough that he cannot stand it and escapes through a magic hole in the ground, your Sim banishes him through flames or you call the clown catchers to wrangle him.