Please give us instanced housing.

[Xaphire]

... vast majority of the playrbase is extremely unhappy with ...

The vast majority of the player base very likely doesn't care about housing, as the vast majority are the casual players who renew their subscriptions when new patches happen, hang around a week or two, and then do other things until next patch. Keep in mind players that post on forums, or in sub reddits are almost always the minority of a community.

As you point to apartments as what you're already looking for...they already exist? Get an apartment? Otherwise, I'm not really sure what is being asked for here.

[Wolf_Heartnet]

The vast majority of the player base very likely doesn't care about housing, as the vast majority are the casual players who renew their subscriptions when new patches happen, hang around a week or two, and then do other things until next patch. Keep in mind players that post on forums, or in sub reddits are almost always the minority of a community.

I believe that the vast majority of people not caring is largely an assumption. The fact that it's been mentioned that this topic has come up several times means that its on alot of peoples minds more so than other topics or issues. That not to say that it's the number one thing on peoples minds but its definitely something that many people want changed.

[Rilifane]

The vast majority of the player base very likely doesn't care about housing, as the vast majority are the casual players who renew their subscriptions when new patches happen, hang around a week or two, and then do other things until next patch. Keep in mind players that post on forums, or in sub reddits are almost always the minority of a community.

As you point to apartments as what you're already looking for...they already exist? Get an apartment? Otherwise, I'm not really sure what is being asked for here.

Is that really all you got from my post? Nice cherrypicking.
First of the unhappiness with the state of housing is not limited to reddit and the official forum. In any form of ingame chat you will mostly get the same reactions. The only positive reactions come from players that already have a house. If someone is indifferent to housing altogether because they don't care about that content then their opinion, or rather indifference, doesn't matter when suggestions and requests are being made. What matters are the opinions of those that care about the content and from those players the vast majority is indeed very unhappy.
Secondly, you completely ignored the part where I wrote that it's not properly fleshed out. No chocobo stable, no proper garden plots, no garden/ balcony, limited interior costumization. It's just one fairly small room, fixed size, fixed layout. Item limit is now more appropriate for the size, they thankfully changed that. The rest of the problems are still the same.
At this point it looks like you're just disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing. I have yet to see a good argument from you on why instanced housing should not be expanded, be it by giving apartments some much needed love or adding seperate wards with instanced houses.