I'm sorry, but what is there to clarify?

Before you entered the contest, you hopefully read and understood the rules (and if you didnt, thats on you) and had the chance to evaluate if you wanted to agree to them or not. If you considered them "cruel", you shouldnt hav entered.
And at least I read and understood the rules with the knowledge that 4.4 was upon us and would most likely bring new furniture - no idea, what excatly, but I considered the risk that they would add something I'd really like to use.

I feel its going down a slipepry slop with the "what are we allowed to change" (swpiing out this chair for a different one? Mannequin instead of dresshanger? Changing the floor is only one item!) and a simple "nothing" is the easiest answer ton ensure the enteries get judged based on what has been entered - and hopefully throuroghly and fairly.

You agreed knowigly to those rules... wanting them changed later - because calrification is not needed, it says "Do not make ANY changes" after all - is like wanting to have your cake and eat it too.