Does Seasons mark the beginning of story progression?

They couldn't even pre-patch seasons without breaking the game. I don't trust them to try implementing full story progression, particularly since they had it in The Sims 3 and mods still did it better. They'll sell it like we won't have to micromanage anymore if we don't want to but it'll probably mix everything up so much that you'll micromanage more than before if you don't want a town full of deadbeat parents and everybody on their 5th or 6th spouse.
I'll probably wind up switching their story progression off and using MCCC like I did with TS3 and Nraas