Hard to make all happy
I love the settlements, yes I may choose to take it more relaxed in some of my 5 towns (6 with Beta), but it is my fail, that I choose to have more than one town.
The events mess up my time way more than the settlements will do. Running the Shrines and Goods buildings in 24 hours turnus should work.
If you start with getting 3 expansions with axes and then 3 with mead, you should be doing fine. Then unlock until you get to Beast Hunter will give you a good start.
Sure Shrines do give better, when you run 4 hours but you get same cc for 2x8 hours vs 1x24 hours.
Do not have more Goods buildings than you can feed with cc.
If you can't login several times a day, you need more expansions than if you can havest each 4 hours.
More shrines = more Diplomacy = less build and destroy
It will be replace with better buildings and Diplomacy won't be a problem
Impossible, no, a challenge, yes