Auto Demolitions Need to be Reactivated

[chizLemons]

A possible solution was to add instanced housing in the instanced Island. Yet they decided not to do it.

I think they do not do instanced housing to keep a carrot on players who do have a house so they continue to pay subscription.

For me the reason they don't do instanced housing is because the cool thing about FFXIV housing IS having wards and neighbors and not being instanced. It's what makes housing in this game different! It's actually really fun when house owners in a ward are active and you can see your neighbors changing things around, visiting them, seeing people, active FCs and RP venues. Plus, apartments ARE instanced housing and people just don't use them, you don't see them around, a lot are abandoned...it's simply not as fun in that sense.

Although, to be honest, the only thing you miss from having a house is having a garden. Everything else you can do in an apartment.

EXACTLY. Now please tell this to people that never even tried having an apartment but think they're entitled to a house they're most likely going to abandon in 2 weeks. I've seen many people don't even try to decorate their own apartments, get a house, struggle with decorating, decide they're not that into it and just abandoning and never using it again - but since auto-demolition is not on, they're just...there.

Also, about missing out on gardens - YoshiP already said that he plans on making possible to put outdoor items in your island to decorate it. There you go, instanced garden decoration!
If you're talking about the housing garden plots...they're really not that big of a deal that people make it seem to be. They're not really a good source of gil, you have to log in and actively take care of it (or have a friendly neighbor that waters them for you) everyday or things die which can make them a chore, everything you get from it you can buy cheap on the marketboard or get by other means. If you go walking around random wards you will notice a LOT of people don't plant anything on theirs, or don't even have them.