I turned off wants and fears for this same reason. Fears being nearly impossible to deal with and wants being completely unrealistic (like two male sims that can't get pregnant, one wants to try for baby). Now I have just added a bunch of extra holidays to my calendar (each season is 28 days) so they get all their satisfaction points from those. If I'm playing with cheats, I'll give them some satisfaction points after they max out a skill. Honestly, the old system of whims worked much better and at least you didn't have to waste points to refresh the list or get rid of fears that make no sense. The wants and fears system is about as useless as the Lifestyles and equally annoying. Now, if they could just fix the toggle to turn it off...
