There are people on Mateus, which up until 4.0 was a dead sever, and their housing ran out within 15 minutes of the server coming up. So the "transfer to a smaller server" is flawed anyway. In addition, as there is unique content that REQUIRES you to have a house (FC airships, gardens [cross-breeding]), there should be more of a fair chance to actually be able to engage in such content. This isn't a skill check like savage content is for gating where you can eventually experience the content by improving yourself, or by having others help you through it, but instead a gate of "did you click in the right ms to get past the launcher not loading and get in before the queue started?" which is not good.