Hardest Part of Creating a Sim?

I struggle with making diverse sims sometimes. Even if they have different skin tones and hair colors/styles, I find myself gravitating toward the same makeup and clothing styles so a lot of my sims tend to have a very similar feel since I sometimes struggle with getting out of my comfort zone and my own preferences when it come to styling them differently.

Adding personality with only 3 trait slots.

Making the nostrils look the way I want them to look, lol.

Going to the bother of making them look like they have a story and a personality, only to wind up having them be glassy-eyed lifeless hand puppets in Sims4, whose traits don't actually matter, for whom gameplay is a thin veneer easily scratched through and largely imagined instead of there waiting to be discovered. They may as well all look the same, because on the inside, they're all the same hollow puppets, really. At least there's still Sims3 and for those who live in countries where it is still supported, Sims2, for that good old gameplay satisfaction.

@DivaDogs I know, I’m constantly deciding that something about a Sim’s face doesn’t look right and going back to change it. ? I keep saying to myself, “Right, this is the last edit”, and two weeks later, I’m back in CAS, adjusting their eyes/nose/whatever again.

Making them look different from other sims.

Patience! I enter CAS thinking, I'm going to take my time with this sim... give them 5 outfits for each category, different hair styles for each, accessorize. As soon as I'm finished the first every day outfit, I'm out of patience and I just give them a stylized look for the rest of the categories.

Color coordinating clothes and/or makeup. I'm so bad at it.

To be fair, I struggle with names, too. With every game. I have genuinely put down a game or just sat there for minutes thinking of them. I have used randomize as well, but after a while you feel you have seen too many of the same ones. If it is really bad, there are a few websites with lists of names I visit.

This is just part of my main problem: inspiration. I need an idea of what I want to do to base my Sims, builds, and gameplay around. Names are ultimately a part of this, and inspiration is ridiculously fickle. Sometimes it flows like water, at others it is a mere trickle of thick molasses.

So the most difficult part of CAS for me is figuring out just what I want to make. Detail edits can be pretty annoying, but I actually have to be interested in the Sim first. If I had to pick a runner up, it would be detail edit stuff like reproducing Sims or synchronizing details of several versions of the same Sim. It is just tedious and I like to avoid it if at all possible until the point it harms my fun.

For me it's the outfits for every catagory so I just randomize all of their outfits.