It's time to reinstate Housing Auto-Demolitions

[DeaconMoore]

I don't think I've strawman'd you. I think you have your priorities straight and I know how much you must be suffering because you can't get a house on ffxiv. :^(

My argument is SE should find an actual solution to the housing problem. No demolition timer.
I hope 4.2 will give us a good solution.

As long as we have wards and not instanced housing auto demolition is the only way to have a healthy and active housing situation. It's a 45 day timer and they let you know ahead of time before it gets demolished giving you a chance to keep it. If the house is important to you and you have one you will login and walk into it saving it from being demolished if not you obviously didn't care anymore and the demolition is a non-issue.

If we have wards and no demolishing of unused houses the game will eventually fill up all the wards with unused houses that no active playing and paying customer can use. What is the point to housing then? Just to mock everyone still playing?

Don't expect 4.2 to fix housing, it's very likely to be the same but more, and the more is very likely to be less than demand.