Just wanted to hop in and say I agree with the post overall! I don't think it's fair to argue and use an example of people spending allnighters at the time to just get a home. That's just wrecking your personal health for a video game - not something worth bragging about or suggesting that someone else who didn't do that is at fault for it because they're complaining about that system now. That's just unfair to me. Even the staff of this game have specifically said they want their players to actually take care of their health and play when they want to. There's many reasons why someone wasn't able to get a house and it's not okay to assume the reasoning as to why.
As an example, I have some friends who deal with issues with fatigue, and are often far too tired to even consider going for a house at the time when lotteries weren't a thing yet. It's just not cool to think that just because you managed to get one with the old system that everyone else could do the same. While the lottery nowadays does help with this issue specifically, the main issue is still just the fact that there simply isn't enough plots to meet the demand.
I also agree and firmly believe that they're not actively ignoring this problem or had any malicious intents behind it. Just an idea that didn't go well, and that they can't exactly backpedal on now because they're far too deep in. The only thing that could possibly make sense to me at least is to create more wards. I don't know how much effort such a task would take, but as someone who's been wanting a house for a really long time now the lottery system surely isn't going to help the problem of just not having enough houses. It sucks seeing hundreds of people entering for one plot of land knowing that most of them will have to login and defeatedly walk up to the plot and take their money back. I really want to just add another voice to echo the "Please do something about this."