Maybe you and everyone else suffering from this same issue could try my play style.
I have many different saves but my favourite one is the save where I play with all the premade families(+ the ones from maxiscreator_01). For the maciscreator_01 I've build houses that focus on the items that came with their pack.
As an example the young couple from Romantic Garden Stuff(I can't remember their names) live in a small house that has a huge garden that is filled with flowers and other items from that pack.
I have done same thing with every pack(I own them all) so I have at least one family who focuses on every EP, GP & SP.
Before this I used to get the biggest lot there is, build a huge house and put all of my favourite gameplay objects there.. But that felt always really overwhelming and "too perfect"(I don't like it when games are too perfect).
