Players have clamoured forever to have more control over what villagers have in their homes. Nintendo has given us that control. They'll never please everyone. They can't. If they gave us less control and more consequences in HHD, you can guarantee that there'd be at least one thread complaining about how they missed a huge opportunity, that the game is too hard, that it sucks, that they should have given us more creative freedom.
While yeah, there may be no consequences in the game if we don't design according to spec, AC games have never been truly challenging beyond a certain point. Even if the villagers like whatever we do, whether it conforms with their specs or not, we can simply pretend that the ability to design whatever we like isn't there. It's all pretend, so let's pretend and challenge ourselves to design what villagers have asked for. Chances are good that many players default to a certain, basic style or look and pushing ourselves outside of that is a good thing.
I've decided that I'll design according to villagers' specs to start with, then do my own thing after that when I go back to redesign.
Ren?e, your taste is hideous. This will be fixed.
Garbage-loving freaks: you'll get garbage just so you feel as though I listened to you, then it's MY turn, baby.