Hello BioHazard
I have the same problem. I have all elders in my town that simply refuse to die, they seem to last forever. I have all of Awe mod defaults enabled that are to do with merges and no one gets out alive etc. Shortening the elders life span would be a Godsend.
But now I have a ghost town with no children, one or two adults and no teens. I will simply have to delete the town and start again or make many selfmade sims to add manually.
Let me add hastily that I would not play the game without the Awe mod even with this happening as the other features it cures are essential to my gameplay enjoyment.
I had the original mod and the townies spawned nicely filling my hood well but as I have updated the mod and the config the spawning has completely stopped. The job areas are nearly empty, another words co workers are one or two elders instead of four adults as before. That applies to all careers, there is simply not enough townies to fill them.
I have the same problem, my rocker's band look a bit strange with only silver haired band members, lol. I have to make new families with a handful of kids on a regular basis just so the town won't die. Sometimes I skill them up and give them jobs before I leave them to esure some jobs are filled. But now I have noticed something strange; almost every sim I have made but don't play gets fired eventually. It looks like they don't go to work unless I play them? It's the same with the kids, -when I check on them they all have Fs and their homework bar is all red. So appearently they neither go to school or do homework when I'm not around.
Also; I have yet to see a married couple have a baby unless I make them, even if both have the family oriented trait.
My wish is for a better AI, that they do stuff that makes sense more automatically, like find a job and actually go to it every day, go to school/do homework etc. And for god's sake; make some kids!