I can't agree that simply starting from a chosen world map, seeing the neighborhood and available households qnd empty lots, with the option visible in front of you to either choose a household or create one, is somehow limiting to those who want to create one.
Being forced to go through creating a new one when all you wanted fo do was go right to the Munches, or the Goths, that's what causes an unnecessary hurdle. It's not equally fair to both, it forces everyone to play the same way at least at first.
Choosing a worldmap, then seeing the option to Create or Select a Household does offer equally direct access to both options and is how it was done before sims4.
Starting a new save when I wasn't in the mood to get into the weeds of character creation but just wanted to play with the families of Windenberg used to give me such a moment of irritation because there was no getting around that forced turnstile of creating a new household I didn't even want.
I bet it wouldn't destroy sims4 to change it to starting from choosing a world, first, then looking at the neighborhood and then either selecting a household, or creating one, or downloading one from the gallery to play.
