Is your playstyle more like sandbox or simulation?

Sandbox all the way for me. Goals to meet and consequences to fear? Yes, gladly, but they have to be set by me.

Sandbox however needs a solid simulation underneath. For example I love competitions between my sims and one interaction that would have been perfect for that is sparring. Alas, in Sims 4 sparring has no clear winner, and therefore is useless in half my games. (The other half being scripted stories where I already know who will win, so it's not a total loss.)