So besides watching old cutscenes and accumulating some rested exp, what are the point of these rooms?In the current Patch 1.21, the inn rooms are simplified private areas, and players cannot synthesize, repair, or affix material while in them. (Such features are planned for inclusion in FFXIV Version 2.0's housing system.)
It's a private space, right?
Crafting is one of the few things you can efficiently do alone, so why disable crafting inside Inn rooms?
At the moment if I've got an important synth do to I head of the closest GC HQ, since I get much less input and animation lag there than anywhere else. I think it'd be much more thematically appropriate to retire to one's room for some uninterrupted crafting time...