I personally don't care about it. I have been using cheats and mods to manage the needs of my sims even in previous iterations. To me, it is more of an inconvenience that gets in the way, but i know o...
I don't meddle a lot, if I have a sim in my rotation who has half or more of their needs in the yellow when I switch to them I will use the make happy cheat to set them right quickly.