Do CAS stories seem useless?

Since they are giving us a choice on whether or we want to do it, then no. I think this will be a nice little addition to the game.

I play rotationally, and I could see using this to start several households in a game.

i would say no because if i base myself from what i remember i think its something that was ask since 2014.

I like the idea of CAS stories but I don't like the implementation. If generating a background story is done only via quiz, then I think it will get old really fast. Why a quiz? I see it as being "fun" once or twice -- not every time I want to make a sim. And, honestly, my non-random sims are way more deserving of a CAS story then some random.

I hope I will be surprised by it though. Maybe we will have more options than what they shared? Always with the maybes....

EDIT: Just tried it out in-game. Here are my thoughts (and questions -- any answers would be appreciated):

So, the quiz reminds me more of a social app that gets shared on Facebook (or wherever). I don't think I'm going to enjoy doing that quiz every time I want to add a sim with a background.

Is there no way to add a story to ANY sim (not just new ones in CAS or added to existing families) without the quiz approach? There are more efficient ways to do so and they could be done by random or manual selection. So, while the quiz might be fun (once), a more effective method would give players much more choice without having to spend more time in CAS.

On a small positive, I like that they are still looking for new directions to go in, but I don't think a new direction is as important to the game in its current state than actually making the core of the game better.

Also, is there STILL no way to make one outfit in say, everyday, and copy it to another category in CAS? Because that is way more important to me than taking some quiz.

Yes, now that I see it and try to make a Sim I want, totally useless.

I've tried using it, and as for the traits/aspiration part, you might as well use the randomiser. I've tried to make three Sims with specific interests and they got traits that were seemingly unrelated. The story part, i.e., the job and skills did seem inspired by my answers, so that does work well.
But for me, it'll be less usefull than I originaly expected. Or maybe it was just me giving the wrong answers?

Seeing it in action, I think it is really a great step forward. When the background information for the sim was presented at the end of the questionnaire I was very excited. Career, traits and starting funds were displayed in general terms. It felt like I was making a sim that had a connection to the world. Nice job devs.

Just saw James, create a sim using the stories and he was asked questions which had cat related answers. He didn’t choose any of them nor did he change the question and his sim ended up with “cat lover” trait. That trait seems forced. Seems like the stories system is just as flawed as other things.

The stories don't stick in the saved household, it's straight from CAS to gameplay or not at all.

I don’t think it’s useless.
The only disappointment I have is that I’ve wanted customization options like this forever. Having the ability to set skills, careers, and their levels would be awesome.

Now we kind of have this ability, but without the options of customizing it to our liking. It’s randomized based off of a “quiz”.
Otherwise, no, it definitely isn’t useless. I think I will find it useful when creating random sims that I need to quickly create to fill roles in my worlds.