Tell me again why we can't have instanced housing?

[Avenger]

Wrong we have a instanced room..
A House can have tenants and comes in 3 different sizes small 2 rooms medium 3 mid size rooms and finally large that comes in 3 large floors..

I will call apartments a house if you give me 3 things
1- The option to have the same size as a house 2 floors 3 floors mid 3 floors large..
2- A planter for inside that can grow at lest 4 plants at once to crossbreed.. again by house size small can have 2 (8 total garden spots = to one garden) medium can have 4(16 garden spots =2 full gardens) large can have 6 (24 garden spots = to 3 gardens)
3- Tenants...exp let me live with my spose (not married not again nope)

I'll gladly give up a front yard and call it a house.. but until then you should probly call a sheep what a sheep is
Apartments are a room,, Not a House

Funny part is once you zone in a house your in a private instance.. you get in by clicking a door..
I enter my apartment by clicking a door to take me to a instance room.....
Seems like it be easy to tie the inside of housing server to the apartment door

You seem to be confusing "houses" with "housing." The original plan by the dev team was for player housing to be apartments (and FC house rooms) and FC housing to be houses in wards, but they eventually (in response to player demands) allowed individual players to buy houses in wards, leading to the situation we have today of scarcity and high demand (and perceived associated player social status?) for houses. (I also think small houses used to be smaller inside maybe, but that doesn't affect the overall situation.)

It appears that the way FFXIV is currently designed, areas that multiple players can enter (including housing) are limited by server capacity and bandwidth, which are in turn limited by cost, infrastructure, operational and supply chain issues. Though it isn't clear to me whether island sanctuaries will be open to multiple players or not.

I would expect any instanced housing expansion to be small and incremental, such as adding small moggarden terraces to apartments.