Having to data center travel every day just to do basic 4-man content isn't ideal, especially when Aether is locked all day long, or how it just means you end up playing on Primal and Crystal instead so you never even get to see your house most of the time or have anyone that will ever come to visit.
And I started on Maduin actually, I even own two houses myself across the street from each other, that stood unclaimed for YEARS because I only got these two in the last few months.
https://i.imgur.com/P07wnsy.jpeg
Hell, I've debated moving AWAY from Dynamis after 2 and a half years because its so dead and having houses here is so... pointless outside of gil from the FC one. I'm speaking from experience when I say it's not really worth it for anyone to transfer here just for a house because they'll more than likely regret it, and the people who don't want to transfer are better off.
All the other wards being gobbled up by shell FCs printing gil is 100% on Square-Enix and not the players, as Square-Enix are the ones who made the decisions to:
Have housing be limited in the first place.
Allow FCs to make gil at all.
Allow people to own multiple houses on a single account.
Made a new data center with zero incentive for anyone to move over, while tricking new players like me into starting there.
It's not on players to make up for Square-Enix's mistakes that's caused a constant housing crisis for those who have been wanting one for years, longer than I've been playing even, and where telling them "just move then" is awful advice because of everything they would have to leave behind while getting back very little in return.