I used to think I was fine with tiny living, because my entire childhood home was 20 sqr meters, but I now live alone in such a space and it's too small. I have huge windows, but the walls are closing in. The space is too small to furnish in a way which wouldn't hinder an aspect of everyday life. I'm so tired of algorithm trying to convince me tiny living is fine when it shows even worse conditions than mine. I wish I lived in 30 sqr meters or so. 40 sqr meters are way too burgoise for me, but I could use extra 10 sqr meters solely for the purpose of farting.
In the area where I live there has been a big trend in the last few years in making very small apartments in the name of environmentalism and to supposedly provide housing for all/affordable housing. At the same time not a kilometer away is an area where huge petty bourge houses with big yards and seven rooms are getting built.
Nobody wants these or can access these apartments because they are very expensive compared to the Soviet style housing that the same area has. The old units have lots of space to live in.
In these new apartments the kitchen is just a wall of appliances that is in both your living room and vestibule at once. Bedroom can only fit a bed, with just enough space around it to get in and out of it.
We used to have a law stating that kitchen has to be a different room separated by a door for fire protection, but now they have put the stove basically to where your shoes are.
With remote work and study these also don't work at all unless you live alone, there is no space or doors or even walls for any kind of privacy, it's just a glorified one room box with a small alcove marketed as a modern loft style compact living space or whatever.
One of these tiny apartments has a rent several hundred euros higher than what me and my partner are paying for our two rooms & kitchen & small yard social housing setup from the Soviet style era.