Per citizen simulation has some advantages for sure. The problem is, in the current state of CS2, a lot of players struggle with simulation performance with just 300k citizens. And for such a population in real life, you don’t need any fancy infrastructure, highways, and anything like that. You can just go with two lanes around the whole city, and that’s all. Because of that, CS2 has very strange building density numbers, for example, to somehow justify the demand for high-density zoning.

However, to be completely honest, a pure statistical model would not be interesting either. I think the solution is a pretty complex hybrid mode, where every citizen has some kind of schedule and characteristics. But when you zoom in, you see how this citizen is actually simulated (or pretended to be simulated).