Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4

The problem with storytelling and making up your own stories in the Sims 4 is that they don't really play out on their own either. You really have to make an effort for your story to work and you have to actively set everything up and some things that are not possible to recreate from your ideas you have to sit there and imagine happened like going to a grocery store for example. Many times I want to create a couple that doesn't get along or families in a neighbourhood having a fight (a la Sims 2 Veronaville style) and make them incompatible with each other. However they never fight on their own, I have to actively choose "argue about..." and have to imagine they did in on their own because they don't get along.
It's been fine so far but I hope with The Sims 5 they take everything a little further.