How to fix housing in 2 steps

[Sairys]

And both FC rooms and apartments are included in the housing system of this game. You can't sit there screaming "they're not housing" when they are. It's not the lack of a feature that creates most of the difference between a house and an apartment, it's the quantity of the feature.

You're like a child screaming "that's not an ice cream sundae because it only has one scoop of ice cream and is missing the cherry on the top". As long as it's got the ice cream and some sort of toppings that include a sauce, it's an ice cream sundae. Apartments are still housing because they have the base qualities of housing (a place reserved for the player that the player can customize to create a home for their character).

Trying to redefine the word to suit your goals isn't going to get you anywhere.

Again, you should be describing what you want from housing, how a house provides that something and how an apartment does not instead of stamping your verbal feet going "apartments aren't housing!"

Your quantity argument here again points to why you're incorrect. The difference between plot sizes is a matter of quantity, larger plots have greater capacities but they're otherwise the same in terms of actual features available. The difference between Houses and Apartments is both quantity and also a lack, if Apartments did not lack features and only had lesser quantities then they would be the same.
Even with your argument that IRL apartments and houses are both defined as housing, the reality is that there are things you can do with an IRL house that aren't possible with an apartment.


However, the simplest issue here is that apartments and houses refer to two concepts with are understood commonly enough for discussion. Obfuscating things by saying they're both the same is just distracting from the discussion, especially when you're also pointing out how they're not actually the same. Arguably the discussion you seem to want to have is a lot more convoluted than just being able to point at houses and say "we want that rather than apartments".

edit: Perhaps for another example, equating Apartments and Houses is kinda like equating players on the Free Trial vs those who have bought the game. They have access to some features, but not everything.