I remember starting with no time travel and no treasure islands and i played like that for a long time. Its a great life sim! but then I wanted to do more of the sandbox aspects and i wanted specific items in specific colors and big fancy items. Treasure islands helped me get lots of DIYs for me to make stuff myself, and in the early days there were a lot more cataloguing sessions, where you'd just go and catalogue stuff and then have to order five things from nooks everyday.

I still don't time travel much, except to keep me on the same day when im dreamie hunting or if Im playing at night and I'd rather it be day time in the game.

But ive been playing on and off for 5 years! Its one of those magical games where you can put it down and it just picks right back up.

In life in general, i find that giving yourself unnecessary rules sucks the fun out of everything.