Why Removing Houses from inactive is NOT a solution.

[Dyvid]

Well the entire concept was to make a player town, not just personal housing and FC housing. Even if personal housing was instance or you could customize your inn, you still need resources to manage all that data and remember how each little detail of each person. Though it'll have negative feedback, in the grand scheme plot reclamation is going to make this feature better for those who use it and able to add new things since they can clear up ghost towns. It might even open the door for personalize inn rooms down the road.

[Naunet]

in the grand scheme plot reclamation is going to make this feature better for those who use it

Why is it so worth SE's time and money to try and make an experience better for maybe 2% of their player population, when they could make a good experience for 100%?

[Dyvid]

Well the entire concept was to make a player town, not just personal housing and FC housing. Even if personal housing was instance or you could customize your inn, you still need resources to manage all that data and remember how each little detail of each person. Though it'll have negative feedback, in the grand scheme plot reclamation is going to make this feature better for those who use it and able to add new things since they can clear up ghost towns. It might even open the door for personalize inn rooms down the road.

Just going to repost this with the key phrase underlined for you. They have to clean up their server in order to even come close to what you wanted. That means reclaiming plots that aren't used.