To OP's question: No, not really.

If anything it makes me want my own house even more, specifically instanced housing. The existence of Island Sanctuaries shows that SE has the capability to give access to on demand personal instances to everyone in a way that won't crash the servers, and has methods to throttle for overcrowding and eject afk people from said instances. I'd much rather have my own instanced area, independent from the archaic ward system, where I could have my own home that I can decorate like a regular house and have people visit.