I know how you feel. I have a love hate relationship with this game. I love my sims but I hate the NPC sims. This is the only sims game where I kill all the killable sims and throw the sims I can't kill into the stocks.
In this game save, my queen had the dream where she had to kiss someone to get rid of the bad moodlet. I put everyone into the stocks that turned down her romantic actions and fed the rest to the pit monster. I pictured the conversations between the sims in the stocks. "What are you here for?" "I wouldn't kiss the queen!" "Me too!"