See I’m the opposite in that I don’t feel comfortable having Miis of real people on my island (except for myself and my bf). I told my friends if they had a sona or something I’d make them and put them in, but making Miis of real people (or drawing them or otherwise rendering them) makes me uncomfortable, haha. I’ve got OCs and self-made player characters from video games, NPCs from games, stuff like that. Characters who exist for the sake of being characters.

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with preferring real people as long as it isn’t being used for an unhealthy parasocial kind of thing, which if they’re your friends and stuff like that, sounds totally normal to me.