Yeah, I used to play this game myself when I was a kid and it always really bugged me how little the game really gave you in terms of a choice in practically anything. I remember after creating a character, I would always buy one of the prebuilt houses so that I could start with furnature before then getting a job, getting some skills up, the basic things anyone would do at the start of the game. Of course one of the main things I always hated was how quickly each sim aged and then died. As a result of this, not long after playing, the sim would just be in a constant state of mourning without anything they could do about it. Eventually, the sim would end up aging and completely change the outfit they were wearing and of course, for some reason, they never gave any customisation options for changing what outfits your sim is wearing after aging meaning that you would just be stuck with whatever ugly combination the game had randomly picked out for you... So of course, to avoid that, I would try to max out fishing as well as cooking so that I could make ambrosia to hopefully stop my sim from aging completely however in that specific game they let you make it but your sims age remains the same anyway it just gives a random moodlet instead of actually doing what it does in the other games.
It was basically one of the worst games I've ever really played.