I honestly would prefer instanced housing. There is nothing special about the wards except your house being overrun by neighbors who I sometimes think just do it to annoy the resident. Also why I now have my house locked to outside intrusion. I had to lock our old FC house too because the neighbor FCs would always be in there running around, jumping on the furniture and just being a general nuisance when you are trying to quietly craft.

The only thing nice about wards is the access to a mb which could easily be placed in an instance if we are given an option to have a smaller version.