Awesome stuff there! I've got about 3 or 4 games on my Steam Library, and out of these BeamNG has the highest playtime - I've racked up 3020 hours since the first Steam release in 2015 (or 2016?)
The strange, old career mode where you had comic-themed drawings and a vandalized covet as your first car lol 2018 - the time where I used to choose East Coast USA map, drive the ETK 800 Series 856 ttSport+ in that purple color from a white house to that red house thing, then spawning around many cars and simulating that some people went to a party and had fun Or incessantly testing vehicles on Gridmap... the D-Series, the Covet... basically just messing around with the physics and everything From 2019, then, I always drove around randomly in random maps and cars, until today - where I respect traffic rules and create "stories" in my head, or I mess around with configurations, transport cargo, play career mode...
The last part - very relatable. I even create sorta scenarios but i don't have the programming knowledge to make them actual scenarios, so i just set a goal, and if i fail, then i restart (made a race barstow, but it was a bit more breakable so you had to drive carefully to the racetrack on WCUSA from one of the weird garage things, and then had to race it)