The issue isn't that people aren't prepared to work towards accessing housing it's that it's virtually impossible to actually work towards it in the first place for the vast majority of players. Someone isn't 'more exclusive' just because they happened to play eighteen hours a day, seven days a week and managed to scrape together ten million gil whilst also being lucky enough to get online with no issue during a very tiny window of time when the last patch went live.
So far there's no indication that anything will change - they'll be adding a few new wards with 2.4 but as far as we can see it's going to be a repeat of what has happened each time a new ward has been added. It's not even a smart move from a business perspective either as appealing to the majority is better than the vocal minority who want to sit and brag about being one of the lucky few to have a house of their own in the first place.
So far there's no indication that anything will change - they'll be adding a few new wards with 2.4 but as far as we can see it's going to be a repeat of what has happened each time a new ward has been added. It's not even a smart move from a business perspective either as appealing to the majority is better than the vocal minority who want to sit and brag about being one of the lucky few to have a house of their own in the first place.