Do more Simmers who want Better Babies play on Long Life/aging off?

I play on the longest life setting and I would love more things to do with babies. Family play is my main play style and I want babies to be real and feel more like they are a part of the family. I want them to be able to move around the house. Be placed in different places with activity mats, swing chairs or something similar. I want sims to be able to carry them, sit with them or even rock them to sleep. I want changing tables for them just to add a bit of realism. Baby baths or at least bathing them in a sink. I just want them to be and feel like real babies.

I play aging off

I would like to have :
1. more interactions to do with babies

2. cute nursery furniture
(say having mermaid themed cribs for example)

3. gameplay objects to use with babies for fun and social need (say strollers for example which yes should also be available for toddlers)

4. just way to get the baby out of the crib and change crib whenever i like to match rest of the nursery if i get more kids than i bargain for

5.maybe possibility to see babies needs to make role of mighty watcher easier but i doubt i will get that so rip

what i don't want however

1. lifestage between baby and toddler... don't see point of that

2. some overboard things that force perfectionist players to keep their babies as babies for longer than they want like say baby aspirations or something as ridiculous toddlers are enough grind

I personally do not really care about babies too much. Their object nature is a little weird in my opinion, and feels off, but I do not expect a lot of gameplay for such a short and dependent life phase. So, improvements or no, I would be fine either way. Granted this assumes that the improvements do not make babies even more annoying than previously.

I play with aging off, by the way. I like to age my sims up when I choose.

I auto age all my Sims, played and unplayed, give them full autonomy and a long life for all. You've got to give them all a chance. I even let them fill my empty houses after giving them a once over and they pass inspection. I still remove all the pre-made ones though first.

I play with aging off and more interactions would be good but mostly I'd like to be able to take the baby with me if the sim visits another lot or just take it for a stroll round the neighbourhood. Changing their appearance in CAS and also that of the cot would be nice, but also more gameplay interactions are needed. Baby play mat, baby swing, baby's first tooth milestone, cook baby pureed food (we can cook for the pets, why not for the babies?), play with a rattle, wash baby not just change the diaper, smart milk so they learn skills faster when they are toddlers.

I typically play Aging on, Short lifespan; or, I play Aging on, Normal lifespan. I want to see more to do with babies for everyone else but really could care less personally. I'm a family player, but I'm fine with babies the way they currently are anyway. That's probably strange. I hadn't thought about it but its like cars. I just don't personally have an investment in anything being added in their direction at present.

Long player here.

I would LOVE for babies to be detached from their prison-bassinet. There was a playmat and a highchair that baby could be placed in that allowed for the infant to play, available in the Sims 2 Store. The highchair/play chair was good for the attending Sim to be able to fix a meal. Babies do need to be bathed. It was fun to watch a Sim hold the newly fed infant above their head and for baby to spit-up all over said Sim. Bathing them in the sink was also fun, plus it promoted a growth in relationship between the attending Sim and the baby.

If another life stage is considered, it should be the Infant stage, where a baby learns how to sit up and crawl. Also, they should have a walker to place them in wherein the baby can scoot around the room, too. If not included, we don't need such a life-stage. What we have now is a never-ending newborn stage.

Babies should be babies, again and not an object as they are now. They may have several interactions, but they aren't a smooth transition. You shouldn't have to place the baby back into the bassinet, just to remove them again for the next interaction. Face/palm. Please untether the child.

I play with normal aging and a "functional childhood" (meet goals, age up toddler to child, meet next set of goals, age up child to teen, meet last set of goals, adulthood time!) mindset toward sim families.

I like having the baby safely in one place for parents to grind parenting skill and relationship on it for three days. No real use for "freed babies."

I alternate between aging on long and off. I like to enjoy the baby, toddler, and elder stages the long lifespan. Sims 4 babies are just Sims 1 babies which I don't understand and tend to conflict with the modern and inclusive direction Gurus are going for. There is extremely limited skin tones with babies and genetics with them have already bugged out through several patches so far. Bugged out babies need to go and updated with a real life stage. I mean there was a time when babies would burn because of being coded as an object. But I have had fun abusing that object coding with move objects on cheat with some fun screenshots. So if Sims 4 direction is encouraging abuse of babies it isn't far off of from the eat babies mod in my opinion. They have already been cooked with fire. I have playtested babies and they simply are coded poorly which makes sense after the rush of Olympus.

I'm not sure what to pick as I switch between normal and long aging. Mostly want cosmetic changes to babies/not into to fuss about them.