I would be opposed to offline gathering. In fact, I'm also opposed to offline market boarding. You should be online to play an online game. Although in a sense, the retainer ventures is a form of offline gathering.

I would definitely love more size options for apartments. For example a penthouse option that has a second floor, and a townhouse option that has more verticality, etc.

As for glamour, I'm really mostly discontent about the problem of glamouring job gear to role gear. A job-plate may look like the solution, but it is still tying the appearance to pieces of gear. What we really need is to completely do away with the concept of transforming the look of individual pieces of gear; instead, the system should have been, in the first place, "wearing" the plates.

For those who are confused by my bad articulation (sorry it's been a long week of little sleep), here's an example:

1. Have glamour plates as usual.
2. Instead of applying plates to what you're equipped, you actually have another gear slot on you that is used to equip one glamour plate.
3. When the game needs to display your character model, it reads the glamour plate and displays it, applying all the same restrictions on class/job as we currently have.

This way I can have my PLD+GNB+WAR all wearing tomestone role gear, but each equipping a different glamour plate that makes them look different, including the weapon and shield slot.