My absence and return - thoughts on demolished houses

[AxlStream]

I definitely planned on subbing again, soon, in fact, until that patch went live.

But consider this. Your plot got vacant and somebody else likely picked it up. Someone that stayed actively subbed that might of left if they didn't have access to housing. If you had already left before the patch, they lost you somewhere else, therefor your sub is not guaranteed either way. That decision was likely to secure their active subs.