Quote Originally Posted by Terrini View Post
LONG AND TEDIOUS
Their explanation is that the issue is due to resulting server load issues that need to be addressed, not that it's difficult to change the limit.

But this is also far from the only housing issue that's been delayed. In June, we were told that they'd address being unable to match partitions to anything but the original 3 walls:

Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
... the development team will be addressing this.
We were also told:

Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
We’re currently looking into making it so you can adjust the brightness of your entire house. The team is working to address this sometime after patch 2.4.
We got an update on that last issue, informing us that it's officially been delayed:

Quote Originally Posted by Grekumah View Post
The development team is continuing to look into a feature that will allow you to set the brightness of the lighting in your houses, but as a result of adjusting the development schedule the team has been prioritizing other tasks.
It should not be the case that developing new content has to come at the expense of being unable to address minor technical issues in existing content. With the amount of hype that housing got, letting small issues detract from the enjoyability of it is a disappointing decision.