The issue here is, well..

Several times, when New plots have opened up and SE giving FCs almost exclusive rights to those plots for the first few weeks, they were barely touched if not left abandoned all-together. Then they were all eaten up once Personal House owners had the ability to purchase the plots.

When FCs get given an advantage, it's ignored or unaccepted. Then when they lose said advantage, they whine because they don't have it. Despite not using it when they had it in the first place. Not all FCs are like this, mind. But a vocal enough amount of them giving the general assumption that it's a waste to offer it.