At this point knowing the housing mirage is coming I don't see much need for instanced housing unless they REALLY go all out with it. Similar to the wow housing. There are so many empty plots atm I don't see it being needed and then also with how other games have their houses instanced, many wont even engage with it. It's too separate from the rest of the game world. GW2 housing gives everyone a house, which is great! But you can't visit random peoples homes and for many in gw2 they say, why bother decorating a house nobody will see, and so they do not interact with it. The same would happen in xiv.

Maybe letting an FC or very rich individual purchase an entire ward and let us customise the layout etc. Maybe they could make wards something like buying extra retainers, so for a small fee (on top of the gil cost) you own an entire ward for yourself and friends to use and create your own playground in. You could still have those wards appear on listed wards of the housing npcs for people to pop in and visit. The fee helps with any costs of potentially allowing a huge expansion of wards and the high gil costs would help stop too many appearing. In any case, I don't see it happening.

I'm more interested in seeing item limit increased by a large amount esp for mansions. And letting us actually fully change the interior layout. Being able to change the walls was nice but it totally missed the mark for not letting you remove pillars on the other house styles. It didn't solve the problem of needing dozens of partitions to have a wall you like. Let us resize items like you can in gw2, allow for placement of items to be rotated again like in gw2.

Nice to see Yoshi P mention a desire to give support to "glitching".