6/6
So why complain, what can even be done before Endwalker?

A handful of key presses is all it would take for Square to lower how malicious this is. A 24 hour random timer is senseless. Square is the company that made ff11, many of the development team were members of the ff11 team. Back in ff11 monster spawns were camped for days on end, then taking their items to spawn bosses that could take, notoriously such as Absolute Virtue, over 30 hours of constant attack to defeat. The excuse that they didn't think the player base would camp a 24 hour timer for a house is extremely easy to dismiss. This is literally their fanbase and players, they have literally designed encounters like this previously and had people endure it.

I don't believe it was the intention to inflict direct suffering on players who wanted housing, but it was the result. I do believe they completely understood people would camp these timers, but that this would somehow be more fair and less prone to botting; though we all know it did the opposite. On my home server it's a guarantee that at least 5-10 bots are hanging out during prime time at plots. They're often the ones winning them.

I don't believe I'm asking for a fix when I ask for this, I'm simply asking to reduce the suffering inflicted. They need to lower the timer to not exceed 6 hours, ever. It won't solve botting, it won't increase it either. But it will let the rest of us move on with our days and reduce our burnout rate. If you want to have a timer, that's cool, but you don't have to be inhuman about it.

When you have a discord server of hundreds of people just dedicated to helping others get housing and keep their morale up (Shoutout to the wonderful human beings at Sadu Dothpawrl's Housing) doing far more to prevent burnout than the dev community managers, I think that says something about a company. I don't have a lot of qualms with this game, I love it. But this one is just so glaring and large that I do just often find myself in that mindset: Will this thing freaking sell, I want nothing more than to log out and play something else.

If you cared to read all this, thanks. I wanted to try to be as objective as I could and provide substance to my complaint while supporting the OP's original statement. Be nice to each other and remember that other players are not what makes the housing system bad, it's the people in control of it.