Going back to vanilla?

You could have a save just for vanilla gameplay and when you get tired of vanilla you can start adding back in mods and CC. I play vanilla nowadays and it's quite liberating not having to worry about broken CC. Once an update finishes installing you are good to play. :)

Having a moderate amount of cc is rarely a problem. Yeah sometimes a major update could break some chairs or doors or something but it's rare compared to mod breakage. I haven't gone vanilla because I'm not sure if I could ever play without my loads of clothes and jewelry and hair or my alpha cc furniture because I totally love alpha.
And I can't showcase most of my sims styles with the vanilla stuff.

But recently I did dump all of my mods. Too much constant breakage and another MAJOR update coming.
All I have is mccomand to keep my clock slowed down and like two others just to fix a few gameplay annoyances. I am also cleaning out my cc to the bare minimum and only keeping stuff I actually use or want. This is the first time in a very long time I'm playing with the minimum and I don't miss it. I find the game is just as fun without tons of mods.
Later on the only mods I think I'm going to add back are the functional objects. Like the gym set from cepzid, amusement park stuff from waronk and toddler stuff from pandasama. I really love having more functional stuff rather than decor.
Plus functional objects don't break too often either. It's the gameplay changing mods that are a problem and traits as well.

Vanilla here and am enjoying playing without any cc or mods.
Which I generally do until series is done and then I may or may not add to. My 2 and 3 are now modded.

I'm currently playing Vanilla, though I'm seriously missing UI cheats. There are other mods I use that I consider "default" but I'm waiting until after the Growing Together update to update my mods, because I'm sure that's going to mess up a bunch of them.
The only CC I consider "default" is the outdoor litterbox. :) Everything else is nice to have, but not needed, imo.

Ok thanks guys I think I’m gonna clear out my cc and mods and just play vanilla. I know the game will still be glitchy but I just miss the vanilla. I don’t know why I do but I do. Probably because I don’t like seeing all
The glitches.

I went back to vanilla and don't regret it, having limited options forces me to get creative with what I do have rather than just go hunting for CC to fit.

No can do for me! I have mine organized in a way that I can easily put in my mods folder the type of stuff I want. I can not play without CC hair, shoes, and a handful of different makeups (and of course eyelashes!) I also use default eye and skin replacements.

As far as B/B CC, I can go without it, but it annoys me simply because of the horrid swatches EA puts out, while the meshes might be nice the swatch patterns and colors are hideous. I have a TON of B/B CC but I typically will only had a few creator's folders if I'm wanting to decorate, but typically unless it's a house my currently played households are living in, I keep my lots with only game items so stuff doesn't come up missing.

I also need my CC walls because there's simply not enough in the game (and I own all packs and kits besides JtB).

Now mods are another thing, I have a HUGE amount, so much that I keep a spreadsheet of the URLs, the Update Date, and Patch number so I can keep track. It has helped tremendously.

I have a test save that I load when testing new packs/patches which is 100% vanilla because I'll move my mods folder out of My Documents and will just test things with that save until I get my most needed mods updated.

I haven't gone completely vanilla, but I've managed to weed out so much cc these past several months. I've gone from 35GB of cc down to about 4GB... and I don't miss any of it. The only time I play full vanilla is when we get new updates/patches, I have a 'Vanilla Only' save file for those times in between game updates and mod/cc updates.

Mods, I always keep down to just some core mods that I couldn't live without:
- UI Cheats Extension
- Better Build/Buy (which now includes his Always MOO on)
- More CAS columns
- Always Testing on, Always FreeBuild on, Always Fulleditmode on
- And a handful of small mods that either fix glitches or turn off features I don't want in my game

I don't think I'll ever be able to play this game 100% vanilla, my gaming is just so much easier with that small list of core mods... going back to having to type in cheats all the time would annoy me to no end.

I can't ever return to a vanilla game. I never used CC, but mods are absolutely essential in making the game much more the way it should be. I don't like over cluttering my game with mods so I keep it narrowed down to what's absolutely necessary for my preferences, basically mods that make the vanilla gameplay better.

As for updates, I don't update my game unless the update adds a new feature that I find interesting, or if there are fixes for bugs that have been affecting me, other than that I don't update my game and therefore don't need to update my mods as often.