The housing issue can be solved by instancing housing. A lot of people, including myself, do not care if someone else can or not see the house. If they can make apartments, they can make instanced housing. Is not a technical problem. Is a will problem. Just make bigger apartments in which one can plant things and not a shoe box in which people cannot plant things. Is funny that Inn rooms are bigger than apartments in this game.


Since there is a perceived rarity in housing. Those who have houses will not leave the game as easy and instead continue to pay the monthly fee. So there is a monetary incentive to keep the things they way they are. If housing was instancing, there would be no loosing the house you camped a lot for if you leave the game for a while. Meanwhile those who want the house stay to find a house. The game is also a bit mischievous in giving rewards that can only be used in housing.