I loved story progression in TS3 because I wanted the whole world to advance and feel like a living world, but I did not want to play everyone in order to do it.
I hated story progression in TS3 because I played multiple households in rotation and I needed to protect them from unwanted changes. What I hated most was moving my sims out of the homes or apartments that I had given them and marrying them off. I was not bothered as much by sims that took on sims as a romantic interest, as that would be a source for drama.
What saved TS3 story progression for me was NRaas mods.
I could protect my sims from unwanted changes and let story progression do what it wanted with the others.
What I ended up doing was simply turning on story progression just to shake things up and establish changes. And then turn it off to see if I liked the changes. I would adjust things and let aging play out the new directions.
This method seems like it has permissions baked into it.
It should have an off switch, like in TS3, I could turn it on when I wanted to shake things up and turn it off when I didn't want anything to change or bother me.
