[Miller]

Really don't want to see a return to the days where everyone was in their own custom landscapes talking ill of the public scene as if it was some form of taboo because people have started denying there was an issue ever there.

I agree with this actually: I don't want another bout of 'Wow Cellsvich sucks! The arena sucks!', though it does already happen in Korvara to a possibly greater degree considering the things I've seen people say about a few spots of the map in particular, with said spots changing every so oftens.

My opinion mostly differs in that I don't believe player houses were exactly the cause of that, it was mostly a plethora of other factors relating to the community at the time; while player housing didn't help, I personally think they were more a positive than a negative.

WaifuApple
I think people fail to consider that some want to play with their friends in the absence of others, and some just want to play with their friends no matter where it happens. Among those latter people are people who'd end up forming friendships with people they wouldn't otherwise if they were just following their friends into the houses that make up all of their activity.

It doesn't even have to be intentional exclusion, it doesn't have to be malicious. If you don't incentivize people sharing spaces over just being holed up, this place becomes once again super new player unfriendly, as if it wasn't bad enough as is. Some of the people who otherwise would be in these public spaces will just go "Well, people are here so I'll go there instead."

This is a very valid point as well: I personally feel that with the advent of the four nations and the fact that players have actual tangible impact on said factions, there's already incentive to get out there and interact with people and get involved in a community. But, how would you personally say this detracts from incentivizing people from interacting in public? I frankly believe that people holing up in player houses and roleplaying in a total exclusion zone is not much different from someone roleplaying off game.

Is it because of housing public spaces IE: Bars, intruding upon the agency of main player hubs? I can see an argument for that.