I decided to try home after not trying if for months. It's definetly has more game spaces and it's more faster to load. So, that a plus for home. The thing home  lacks is interactive things to do. What's the point of going to my apartment if there's nothing to do. Some apartments have some mini-games,but most of them don't. Why can't you have the option to buy the pool table and the poker table for your apartment. Why can't you stream media to your home apartment,from your HDD. Why not have actual arcade games in your apartment. For the love of god,please change the arcade game in the arcade/bowling space. It's being the same arcade games,since I lasted visited. They also need to come out with game spaces,close to when a game lauches,not months later. Why not come out with virtual instruments are board games that you could play in home. Not everybody likes to play chess over and over again. I think virtual pets is also a good idea for home. Why not,it's interactive. My problem with home is that it's not interactive enough. It does a poor job of immersing you in the world. If they solved this,then home would be great.

Sony needs to include headsets for Home and online play.  Most people dont want to buy a $15 headset which  makes the whole thing less than great. 

Secondly, Sony needs more content, like another mini-mmo , a dating site , etc

it needs music at my private hub. its so quiet in there when i invite my friends over there.

Agreed.  I too dipped back into Home for the first time in ages that was my thinking, too.

I have so much content (music, videos, etc) on my PS3 and the whole concept screams for you to have all that inside Home.  Given so many games aren't socialble either having them in your apartment also makes sense.

I always felt that the team behind Home didn't fully think through the usage and approach - starting off with very grand ideas around game launching, team meetings, etc. then changing approach part way through.

There's no doubt Home has people using it - and it's probably profitable with microtransactions - but it seems to be missing some obvious (and surely easy) additions that would make it more appealing to the general PS3 owner as their core destination vs the XMB.

Well thought out post good sir. lol