Yes? And I always create my own Sims too. I've never cared about playing with someone else's characters when I have the option to make my own. I don't mind prebuild neighborhoods since I don't like building houses myself and would rather just decorate them to suit my characters' needs but I couldn't care less about the Goths, Plesants, Lotharios, Grunts etc. Even when I played for the first time after the tutorial my first step was to create my own Sim and play with him. The Sims living there already were just a backdrop to his stories, nothing more. When I learned that I could get rid of them (back then the deleteallcharacters cheat) I did that. After I learned that was actually bad thing to do I went looking for better ways to get rid of them all and found empty templates. After that I never looked back and whenever I have to reinstall the game the first thing I install afterwards is empty templates and all the noTownieRegen mods.