I get what you're saying, but I think the core point is the most important part of the initial posts. Like yes, of course CC makers can make whatever content they want, and that doesn't have to be inclusive content. Anyone downloading CC can get modular with how they use it, and that does create a more dynamic experience. However, I don't think that addresses the frustration about how the face template situation feels like an extension of racism that has been part of The Sims experience.
The Sims franchise base games have ALWAYS catered toward white people so they've never had to ask for that same inclusion from CC (and if they did they would absolutely have it at least with regard to race. Not body type, and certainly not gender.). So when people are creating content continuously and still not being inclusive (or doing about as much as inclusion as EA did in 2002) that can feel really disappointing.
I think this is so frustrating to me specifically because, tonally, it reads like CC operates the same way for everyone and it just doesn't. Playing the game as a POC always requires seven extra hoops to jump through, whether it's that you can't use most of the portraits in game for Black households cause they just weren't included in the base game, or it's wanting more than 10 hairstyles TS2 actually made that reflects our hair type. That dependency on cc isn't just the privilege of wanting a certain aesthetic. It's the desire to have even a similar amount of content that white simmers had when they bought the game twenty years ago.
Even in the cc downloading space there's always some extra added weirdness. Just a few years ago people were begging cc creators to use brown/black sims on the occasion that they decided to make afro textured hair or braids. We still can't get away from the slave/master language in CC. The uglacies and the beautifying legacy challenges were blatantly featurist against the few POC-coded face templates that existed in the game. And when we talk about it, even when there are helpful suggestions in the comment, people can treat that desire for equality like entitlement.
I get that you're saying 'do the work to make it the game that you want,' but I just feel like that skips over systemic issues and points the finger at the individual instead.
Back to the templates: I also suggest Pooklet's Templates! Shoukeir has some I like as well. I also really enjoy Microscotch's face templates these days as they feel really different from each other.
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