Let people garden in their personal rooms
The biggest reason why I wanted my own house was so I'd have my own personal gardening space. Not sure if others felt the same way, but after this announcement my hopes for that were thrown out the window.
The devs could try tweaking personal houses to lessen the sting of their colossal screwup with personal housing, by allowing some of those elements in the FC personal rooms. Make it like the mog houses in FFXI, let us have a gardening spot in our rooms, maybe as either an arrangement of pots, or small planter boxes or something.