How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[MintnHoney]

You can just do what I did. I stopped my sub for a month (back when money was tight), went into the house on the last day before the sub ended, waited 40 days, then resubbed and re-entered the house to turn off auto-demolition.

That's a start, but the question is why someone should have to do that in the first place, especially when it was promised, originally, that this sort of thing would not be an issue?
But that's just one of the many issues with housing (especially these days) that really should be addressed and spoken of by a dev directly. It's only a part of the larger issue to be discussed, which is that most of XIV's content doesn't necessarily have the necessary staying power even if it is well-liked.