Do you sometimes just feel...rushed

Yes and no. It can be a fair bit to keep up with when they all have things they need to do: careers, school, university, etc. It feels like I need a little breather sometimes after constant micromanagement.

I am used to it, though. In Sims 4, I nearly exclusively play with a household of 8 sims. Single sims just don't feel as fulfilling to me in this one.