What I don't understand is why, if houses are set up similarly to inn rooms in terms of how they are stored when you're logged out or elsewhere in the game, then why is it possible to log in or return from a duty and be in your inn room, but not in your house. The explanation totally falls apart around that single fact, and the lack of consistency makes it hard to accept that it's really a fundamental problem with the game and just not fixable at this time (Or that it would take too many resources to fix and therefore has needed to be shoved so far to the back burner that it appears to have fallen off and gotten stuck in the gap between the wall and the back of the stove).

Maybe they can pick it up again now that apartments have made housing more widely accessible, so you're less likely to have people pitching tantrums on the forums that they're working on other aspects of the feature because person X on ridiculously overcrowded server Y doesn't have a house yet?