My personal stance on housing in FF14 is a very simple one: there is no housing in FF14.

I played Rift for years, and they had a very good housing concept. You bought a dimensional key for a specific location in the game world, and the game created a copy of this place for you as your private personal space. There were hundreds of keys in the game, varying from a small cave with a little hut, up to a giant volcanic crater. In edit mode you could fly around, and place your stuff at any location you wanted - basically a 3D designer mode to create your very personal dream castle, or whatever you desired. People did wonders in these places!

But FF14? A lottery? To rent a little house which you can barely modify at all? And which you loose if you do not port there every other day? lol

I have seen what can be done when housing is done properly, and thus... there is no housing in FF14. Rift is dead now, but if WoW does a better job (which I very much doubt), then maybe this might also help SE to understand that it's 2025, and their housing concept is just a laughing stock.