The team will do nothing about this. Ever. I fully agree with what Arthars said in the Save Point podcast he does with Quazi: Yoshida doesn't want FFXIV to be the best, that's not his goal. He doesn't even think it's possible to be better than WoW, so he will perpetually settle for second-best. (EDIT: I have to add I don't like this mentality from the lead developer of my game, such a meek defeatist attitude doesn't fill me with optimism for the future.)
Mark this post: nothing will change about FFXIV housing, other than the very minor things they've already announced. Even those don't really impress me. When they said "we are looking into the ability to remove pillars from housing interiors", I thought they meant all of the current interiors, not "we are going to make a single new interior that does not have pillars, please enjoy. And if you don't like modern aesthetics in your fantasy game, then you won't enjoy it."
Nothing that WoW's dev team does will ever pressure CSIII/SE to change or innovate, because they just don't care enough to even try to beat them.