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The ironic part of this is if they spent the money to upgrade the infrastructure so anyone who wanted a house (of any size) could have one, and therefore didn't need the auto demolition any more, more people would pause their subscriptions when they're not actively doing anything, which drops SE's revenue.
So I get why fixing housing isn't a big priority, it would impact their bottom line twice.
On the other hand, still sucks. Especially with many countries struggling with cost of living and some dealing with active war zones (to be fair, some of these pauses on auto demolition are for that reason), it just feels like it's rubbing salt into the wound, especially when you might not be able to replace it in the future depending on your server.
They could take some other cost-cutting steps with a housing system without auto-demolish if the plots were made abundant. Like if someone's subscription lapsed for some time, then it's entirely possible to move that data to cheap but slow storage. Then people still have their old stuff as an incentive to get back in.
It's mainly to do with the neighbourhood concept they use. They keep all the housing loaded up because they're legitimate zones you can enter, log in or out from, teleport into, etc. Because a lot of those things exist regardless of the housing owner playing or not it's not really feasible to archive it because other players also see it and access it.