Will lottery destroy or fix housing?

[Seraphor]

I get the hatred of the new system but would you rather sit there and fight scripts. Not to mention card clicking constantly?

The real issue is that these restrictions are in place because the supply will never meet the demand with how they designed housing.

The only other way for the them to give everyone a house is literally deleting the old one and implementing instanced housing–something that a lot of other games do.

I've seen some resistance instanced housing because there's a perceived notion that the novelty of you owning a house and someone else can't is supposedly good feeling.

Even if they added 100x the houses and wards, the supply will never keep up, especially with the game's popularity boon.

The lottery is absolutely better for day one ward releases, so that you aren't fighting for the lowest ping.

My only issue is that none of the houses I've claimed over the years have involved any competition. Each one has been a vacant plot, outside of it's timer, with no one else nearby. They were entirely free houses that I was fortunate enough to stumble upon at the right time. (This isn't a freak accident, anyone can do it if they settle for the Goblet, although I did get one in Shirogane in 2018)
That will never happen now, because even if I were to stumble upon a house like that again, there would be 5 days for other players to do the same and I'd then be fighting against other players for a chance at that house. I'd also have no freedom to leave and try for another plot, because I'd be locked into that lottery for 9 days, so if another plot did become available, I'd 100% miss out on it.

It's "fairer" for most cases where you are competing, but it's not without it's considerable downsides in some less common situations.