I'll be honest with you, I don't think the FF14 devs should have opened their big mouth and mentioned anything about housing or planed housing in the first place. They obviously can't deliver a satisfactory product. And various bullshit "emergency measures" have been implemented such as progressively making housing affordable, or "eventually" relinquishing land after period of inactivity (which you just gotta login during a free login weekend to renew). And lets not mention that drama with personal housing.

Seems like the mistake from 1.0 has already been forgotten.

If you can't deliver, don't pitch it. No matter how you sugar coat it, the shit smell will eventually seep through the icing.