User blog comment:Nikel23/The Sims 4 - no story progression/@comment-1519608-20140702163239/@comment-1997588-20140704161349

Well, the only way to have them WooHoo is by changing household, which I don't really seem to enjoy doing often. And that's really the problem. I don't want every single decision in other families has to involve my intervention.

It's fine as far as I disable the global aging because other families won't progress at all, but once I enable the global aging, it's just a matter of time until they die while forgetting to reproduce.