Where Do You Spend Your Gameplay Time?

There's the old saying that you don't actually play The Sims, you just spend a day or so creating the perfect family and their home and then never touch them again... But I'm not like that. I want to see my sims in action, even though I also enjoy CAS a lot!

I used to love building in previous iterations, but hate it in this one because whenever I have an idea, the game tells me no. So by now I'm just downloading builds from the gallery when I need them and spend most of my time in build mode removing unnecessary clutter rather than actually building.