How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[Ransu]

That's a start, but the question is why someone should have to do that in the first place, especially when it was promised, originally, that this sort of thing would not be an issue?
But that's just one of the many issues with housing (especially these days) that really should be addressed and spoken of by a dev directly. It's only a part of the larger issue to be discussed, which is that most of XIV's content doesn't necessarily have the necessary staying power even if it is well-liked.

Because the original intent was for housing to be for FC's only since FC leadership can be passed around. It was never intended for personal use, but that can of worms got opened and they had to add in a stipulation to remove homes from inactive players in order to make plots available.