Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
Island Sanctuary was not being developed to satisfy housing demand. It was developed to satisfy other requests coming from the player base (primarily the JP side) for things like being able to have more than one minion out at a time. I don't envy SE the rage they're going to have to face when specific details about Island Sanctuary get released and players found out they've been misled by other players like you that insist it's to satisfy housing complaints.
I would argue that we know precious few details for a feature that was bandied about prominently in the promotional materials for Endwalker. Heck, even my former WoW guildies (I'm unsubbed) who don't play FFXIV keep asking what exactly Island Sanctuaries are out of curiosity. You're most likely correct that it's just some place to...unleash your minions.

Still, if it was just a minion ranch, you think they'd clarify that by now. There's a non-zero chance that the devs are frantically adding personal housing features, or the ability to introduce them in a later update at this point. We'll find out in the live letter. But I do agree that getting your hopes up is a fool's errand.