Yeah, the more I look at this, the more I feel like it’s obvious their priority was to maximize land usage to get more units in. Unless they went hard into the tiny home methodology when they built these, the fact that there is a second story makes probably 1/5 of that ground floor into a stairwell with under stair storage that may or may not be effectively implemented, and another 1/5 or so of that upper floor minimally usable open space.
While your right that the way past it is to literally push through and get the numbers up to break their margins, that’s hard to do when the system is rigged to make it so difficult to vote it might require you taking an entire day off to do it. So many people are living paycheck to paycheck that they can’t afford that, and the people with disposable income and time to do that are the old and the rich who typically vote republican. Which is the point.