I kind of read these threads as a "WAH i want it for me!"

the reason everyone says ffxiv housing is terrible is because it's actually the most amazing housing in any mmo.
Actual persistent neighborhoods where you can walk around the streets or just sit in your yard and watch other houses and people
VS housing in most other games that is just an instanced house on a square of land floating in the aether
Quality like that comes at the cost of it taking actual server resources to maintain IE limited availability

We have apartment buildings giving all the instanced rooms in the world, we have the inn rooms giving all the functionality, we have guild rooms giving personal living space inside an FC house.

Yes gardening is an issue for some, but they did say they are trying to address that for apartments
and workshops should no longer be an issue for any existing fc and they'll probably have apartment workshops before it becomes an issue again

I personally missed the shirogane rush due to a login error and having well over enough for a large i went back to towns and watched crystals and got a small in a horrible location in mist, couldn't even see the beach, because having a house was more important than having the perfect house.
This relocation felt like a reward for all the people that said I will participate even if i can't get perfection. I logged in so smoothly this time and went straight to the coveted shiro 30 and tagged the board and all i had to do was click that final confirmation but i left it for guilds and got my favorite medium in the goblet

We have so much available personal space for anyone at this point, the actual houses really are just a grand luxury.