How to fix housing in 2 steps

[Jojoya]

Apartments aren't housing, they're just an FC room you can't lose. (I wouldn't be surprised if that's part of the reason they can't be upgraded.)

Full stop.

hous·ing
/ˈhouziNG/


noun
1.
houses and apartments considered collectively.

Yes, apartments are housing. The moment you claim otherwise you've lost the debate.

What you should be doing is talking about why an apartment is not the housing you want.

Are they smaller with lower item limits? Yes.

Can you still place interior furnishings? Yes. There are approximately 890 different indoor furnishings to choose from versus 212 outdoor furnishings. That means you still have choice from 80% of all furnishings.

Do you get access to a Chocobo Stable? Yes. It's included with apartment purchase and doesn't use up a furnishing slot. A house owner needs to buy one for an additional 125,000 gil and it will use up one of their outdoor furnishing spaces if they want access at their home

Do you get access to a teleport to your apartment. Yes. It's included with apartment purchase and doesn't use up a furnishing slot. A house owner needs to buy a Miniature Aetheryte that will use up one of their outdoor furhishing spaces if they want to be able to teleport directly to their house.

Do you get access to a Delivery Moogle/Mailbox? Yes. There's one in the lobby of every apartment building that anyone can access even if they don't have an apartment in the building. A house owner needs to get a mailbox that will use up one of their outdoor furnishing spaces if they want a mailbox at their house.

Do you get access to general gardening? Yes. Any seed can be grown in flowerpots including seeds that can't be grown in outdoor garden patches. Flowerpots do take up a furnishing space.

Do you get access to intercross gardening? No. That requires weather, which does not exist in instances (why you can't do it inside of a house interior either). But considering less than 90% of house owners participate in intercross gardening because it's an RNG mess that has a mandatory daily log in requirement, it's not an issue for most of those who want a house.

Weather in instance should not be a technical problem, it is as production priority problem as budget is not an infinite resource and how SE manage its validation process

Not trying to claim it should be a problem but with how SE created the instancing system for housing it is. And your explanation shows out why it's not easy to fix, which was the point I made. Budget is a struggle even for a billion dollar company.

House owners shouting down at non house owners.

Most of us support the desire to get a house and would like to see change in the system.

Statements like "apartments aren't housing" won't get SE to make those changes.