Originally Posted by
ovIm
The demolishing is a feature the community requested so people that fully retire from FFXIV do not leave their plots behind. Since housing is limited, its just inefficient to keep stacking availability on top. So really, the demolishing makes sense (the short timer for the demolition however does not)
IMHO, a better solution would be to create a new instanced housing system, and give players a good proper incentive to move to that one, slowly decommissioning that crap system that we are stuck with now.