The minimum acceptable situation

[Reinha]

If you feel ward housing is so superior, how does it bother you if they add instanced alongside it? It’s not going to affect you in the slightest.

No one would be bothered by more houses but it's simply not a matter of being in favor of instanced housing or against it. Players' opinions are irrelevant in this matter.

Square won't make an entire new housing system to ease NA lottery problems when JP and EU are doing fine. All of that development time would be wasted just to serve a few thousand people in one region who couldn't win a personal house on a server of their choosing. Getting an instanced housing system without auto-demolition would encourage more people in all regions to unsub between patches while Square is stuck running servers to maintain ward housing. It's a monetary loss for them any way you look at it.

That's why instanced housing is never going to be added. They have communicated this clearly and continue to act on it by adding more wards. Apartments are inferior by design, so that people will continue to chase ward houses. They also intentionally made island sanctuary separate from housing to offer new content for those who already have a house and to keep wards relevant. Ward housing guarantees a good number of subscriptions at all times, which will cover the costs of keeping the game running as the game gets older and less profitable.