How did we get here?

[Scarlowe]

Alas...
https://www.dualshockers.com/final-f...naoki-yoshida/
Watch them be unable to allow for "upgrading" apartments as well for some reason.

I'm not saying add an actual view of the physical ward your apartment is in, more a mock-view backdrop of sorts, and lift the exterior furnishing restriction in that area. It'd just be an "instanced dummy ward". Plenty of other games do that kind of thing, and there is plenty of phasing in the game already, like beast tribe camps and stuff.

Alas, you're probably right that they'd implement it in some toxic way like rework the buildings to have 50 small apartments, 10 medium ones and 3 penthouses or something and get apartment Hunger Games going while they're at it.