Why? Because money. Both in terms of server data savings and of course scarcity promotes subscription slavery. Also, to have those six zones (25 through 30) sitting there visible month after month -- but, no touchie! -- on servers like Phantom or Phoenix is downright insulting.

Look, The Big Man doesn't care about housing, so none of his minions care about it either. That's how JCompanies work. You could see them give up completely caring back when Shadowbringers launched with no new housing zone. Of course nothing with Endwalker and I can guarantee that there will be nothing with Dawntrail. "Oh, maybe we'll increase the decor limit... maybe in the future... blah, blah, blah... " That's as much of a nod as us housing fanatics will ever get. Double guarantee they'll find some way to forget about that flippant half-hearted promise.

Honestly, we're wasting our time talking about it here. No-one from S-E ever reads the forums.