The problem is there is a massive gap in the quality of content that houses and apartments give. Apartments are just fc rooms with a chocobo stable.
If apartments could be upgraded to be bigger, have extra floors, a small outdoor space (
balcony or penthouse) to do gardening and outdoor decoration, and if fcs could purchase them and use a workshop there then the overall community would be a lot happier with housing in general. If things were like that then players would have access to the same features regardless of whether they own an apartment or house.
Of course there would still be players who would prefer a house, and understandably so, but they could no longer complain that they're locked out of cross planting, fc workshop and have such a tiny space for furnishing compared to a house.
Not to mention that those sort of apartment upgrades would be a great gil sink, which the game is in dire need of. I would also like to see similar upgrades for houses. No reason why we can't, for example, get a second basement. Well aside from server limitations of course
