I think 1M goal refers only to NPCs and skills/magic gameplay outpost.

Taking this to account, I wonder... why is so important that NPCs have any schedules at all? I understand the effect for gameplay, with magic being affected by weather or sun/moon, but, NPCs? Maybe I would give that there is some point of "inmersion" in seeing them going to sleep in a determined hour every day, but after the first time you see that, don't you feel that they are just robots doing the same things again and again? And even worse, don't you think that schedules directly affect gameplay? I don't care if an hypothetical herb seeker goes or not to do his/her job in a determined hour or day if that interferes with my quests.

Of course, it is a matter of preference, but I never felt my "inmersion" was broken because NPCs are there for gameplay or plot issues. In fact, I think that in this fashion, events develop in a more natural way.