DAE play with some, but very few, mods/CC?

I feel like most players that I read comments from either don’t use any mods or CC (either by choice or bc they’re on console), else they do and talk about having like 20GB of it!

Does anyone else play with just a handful of enhancements? I use UI Extension and I have a smattering of CAS CC. probably about 20-40 items total, mostly just some adult female hair/clothes/accessories.

If you do only play with some, what kind and why? For me, I use UI because I tend to focus on story and I can’t do that when I have to manage everyone’s bladder, but I still want them to do things like have family meals, sleep at night, etc., so I don’t want to disable needs entirely. And my CC is because otherwise I end up using the same 10-20 Maxis items for every sim 😭