How do y'all play Sims 4

I create my own Sim families and go from there. I also enjoy building, so I generally build homes for said families and move them in. I also use mods. MCCC is one of my favorites. It allows me to cheat up skills for this newly created family, because it bugs me that a set of parents with maybe 5-6 kids have no skills whatsoever.  I'm also one to create possible mates for some of the kids.