The housing thing has been beaten into the ground. Yoshida should have never said what he did, but the demolition of unused estates is a necessary evil in a game where they won’t attempt to provide housing for the entire playerbase. The alternative is never implementing a demo feature, and then people who quit the game get to keep their house forever. Since they’re insistent on not moving to instanced housing, where would that put all the other players that don’t own houses? In the apartments-that-are-more-expensive-versions-of-FC-rooms? Again, a necessary evil in a system that cannot support housing for all (and in a system where developers are adamant about not shifting to such a system, be it instanced housing or dynamic wards).

As for the earrings, they should have been named “Replice White Ravens”, and be made a regular, white, level 1 glamour item. It’s pure laziness to have just implemented them as they are now.