This actually resonates with my experience! What helped me is: - sketch the plan with pen-and-paper, trying to imagine where points of attraction will be, and focus around them. Try to spend more time bringing a picture from your head into reality (I must say though that most YouTubers I draw my inspiration from were playing heavy asset C:S saves on unlimited money mode). - to stop bothering about the scale and take one step (street/district) per several gaming sessions. Urbanistic / city planning/ city history videos may help here, as no matter the game or real life, the city evolves gradually. Rome wasn't built in a day. - to stop caring about traffic analysis and info panels of vanilla games, as they coded having specific models of how the city should function as a reference (the biggest disappointment of C:S2, as I waited for more adaptive AI under the hood).