Here's what I think happened.

I think it originally was supposed to be Doman Enclave 2.0, yes. Something exactly as you said. A tribe-type situation where we do a little jig every day and the place 'levels up' and we get some goodies along the way. THEN. It also featured the added bonus of people being able to have gardens there in substitution for those who whine about wanting a house for gardening reasons but can't get one. I personally THINK that's all it was originally supposed to be.

But when the news stories about it started spilling out, everyone ran with their own made up delusions of what they thought it would be and somehow the general consensus with no input from Yoshi whatsoever became "Oh, its going to be housing". Well, the man isnt blind. I think he saw that and and started to panic-at first, he tried to ease everyone off of that via telling us in one of those streams to please lower our expectations (which clearly did not work). Now, we all know that men tends to take things hard. So...this leads me to believe that after he saw people STILL!! INSISTING!! that it was houses, maybe, maybe quite possibly! He might have decided to try quickly adding more to it to try making up for what a disappointment it would now turn out to be-through no fault of his own, mind you!

Because we went from the announcement of it..to him asking us to chill...to him completely avoiding the subject altogether for the next like 3 streams lmao. Literally just the same picture every single time with "more info later". I think they're trying to roll with that punch. I dont know though! This is all just wild speculation on my end. Am I HOPEFUL it might be some kind of farm-type-housing? Eh! It'd be cool. but I wont get too ahead of myself. Really I just still think it'll be a farm tribe, so.