Initially auto demo was turned off because of the (sometimes) hours long queue times to get into game at the launch of EW.
That's not an issue any longer.
Then it was turned on due to 'real world events' which everyone assumed to mean the war in Ukraine.
But, if you're unable to access FF14 due to that, then I doubt that your main concern is a virtual house. I understand it sucks, but wars have been raging non stop for decades. Making everyone elses experience lesser for it, for more than half a year now (?) just doesn't make sense.