So.. you’re entire argument is “this is called a thing so I don’t like it”.
There’s no reason behind it, no practicality, no purpose, just that’s a thing and I don’t like thing for no real reason but because I choose not to like it.
And technically it’s NOT an exploit, because to exploit something you have to get something in return. A pretty house is not really a thing you get in return.
Exploits are for malicious abuse of code loopholes ion order to gain an advantage over others.
Since this is just making things look nice, and it doesn’t affect gameplay it isn’t that.
As for all the time they spent adjusting things: can you imagine how many actual game impacting bugs they could have fixed in that time? The repeated disconnects while flying would have been solved almost as soon as they showed up.
Instead, they chose to spend that time checks notes adjusting the grid in housing so people couldn’t make pretty things.
While accounts were being disconnected multiple times an hour, sometimes in the middle of play.
I would suggest you look up the concept of prioritizing.
It means using your time effectively to get the best result by choosing the order of importance of things.
Which means a bug that had people being kicked from the game should be FAR more important than adjusting a grid that was letting people have fun and not impacting gameplay.
And there are a LOT of bugs that need fixing that ABSOLUTELY affect gameplay.
Choosing to go full panic on “ohnoes!!! Billybob rotated a hovering bush WRONGLY!!!” while people are still running into gameplay affecting bugs and there are still adjustments needing to be made, let alone new content to be rolled out is ABSOLUTELY ridiculous.
And the idea that a company is promoting the “No! you cannot have fun in the WRONG way or any way we didn’t tell you to!” is, frankly, terrible.
People don’t play mmos to have fun in only the prescribed and specific ways they’re told to. In fact, the more circumscribed a player is, the LESS they enjoy a game.
And for all of this over something that is, again, something that doesn’t affect gameplay, I am thinking this may be more of a trait of your personal psyche and need for order and rules than any rational argument.
In short, you’re angry about it and don’t like it because it doesn’t follow the rigid codified way you prefer life.
Not because of any real reason attached to profits, enjoyment, entertainment or fulfillment, but because you want everything in a row perfectly labelled and the idea of other people existing who don’t do that annoys you.
If that’s the case, then that’s a personal issue, and absolutely not a housing issue.
It’s fine to live that way and to prefer those things. You don’t get to insist everyone else does. At least not without people being irritated and seeing you as unreasonable.
Just because I don’t like tomatoes doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to eat them.
