Do CAS stories seem useless?

I just made my first CAS stories family and put them into a house. I was disappointed to see that the careers, (her a doctor and him a writer), that were randomly chosen for them in CAS were not automatically their careers in the game. Also, they have no skills whatsoever in-spite of the fact that they were given a random skill as their strong point. The only thing that I saw that actually worked was the aspiration and the extra money, (though it wasn't much more then the base amount) so I see no point in using this feature again unless they fix the issues with this feature. That's why I voted yes.
If this feature worked in full the way they said it would then I would use it again.