There are very few excuses where "the game is free" should be used to justify poor quality, low content, or diminished effort, but I think housing may be one of the few legitimate areas where it can be evoked. It's a large group of luxury custom zones. Probably very cost in-effective.

They should add them, and when they do they should be bigger, better, more involved than in XI. But right nowas much as I'd like to see them I'd like to see them not run out of money. You already see the word "cost" in letter to producer 10 what...a dozen times?

Money's tight. The servers are not at their best. Some sacrifices have to be made in the short term.