This is fair, you didn't miss those people. But I think it was worth me highlighting them because they are, as I argued, very important.

I somewhat agree with your argument. Housing costs more than other assets compared to its economic value, exactly because people have an emotional reaction to the idea of owning it - or the idea of not owning it.

However I have seen middle-class people overextend themselves to 'buy the dip', while their equally wealthy peers sit it out, for over 15 years now. Many of the people who did the former now consider themselves to have got a bargain, while many of the latter changed their minds and ended up buying several years later and at much higher prices.

I'm definitely not arguing that this makes buying right and renting wrong! Just that so far, this is how that choice played out.