It's easy when playing a city builder to focus on the grander scale: electrical grids, traffic patterns, resource management, the economy. Even the happiness level of your citizens can be summarized with a simple, aggregate smiley face that prevents you from having to zoom in to see their actual faces.
But the best city builders give you a reason to stop thinking about the big picture and focus on the finer details. In my current Cities: Skylines 2 mid-size city of 25,000 citizens, I decided to pick one jerk out of the crowd and obsessively observe every facet of his existence.
