I turn to autonomy that is full, and just watch the family. I really only intervene when they step too out of bounds with my idea for this story. Autonomy works fine for me, if I first play while the ...
I do this sometimes, but I can't do it on a regular basis for all sims that I play. I tried it full-time once as an experiment, but I burned out on that idea.
Edit: What I mean is that I do play with autonomy on all the time, and many times I do let things play out however they happen, but I don't let all of my sims do whatever they want all the time without any input from me at all.