Isn't it safe to assume more wards have to be added?

[Jojoya]

We will get a new EU server with Shb. You could go there or hope that enough ppl go there and plots free up.
Ragnarok is one of the fullest EU-Servers.

I don´t think instanced housing will happen.

Maybe we get a new housing ward in ishgard during 5.x

We already have instanced housing. It's called apartments. It does need serious improvement for it to be an attractive option compared to a ward house, though.

Fortunately, just giving players options for apartment size has the potential to shift a lot of the demand away from wards and that should be a relatively simple thing for SE to do since the interior of a house is already instanced.

From there, adding in some sort of patio with exterior view and expanded gardening access would take care of most of the remaining complaints. Something that will never demo and costs a fraction of the gil but still has the same interior space and gardening? I think most players who want housing would be fine with it.

If they can pull off the dynamic exterior view from within an instanced area that they had talked about at one of the FanFests when the balcony question came up in the Q&A, even better.