I think this is the more uncommon thing to think specifically because MMOs and other non-MMOs now’a’days are designed with it in mind. The reason I don’t think highly of it in WoW is because I genuinely think Garrisons were them making a good attempt at player housing and what it demonstrated to me is that WoW’s playerbase is far more communal rather than personal.
Folks want player housing no question about that … but I just think it is a case of “you think that you do, but you don’t”. Again though, I’m more than happy to be proven wrong.