I want to say I clearly heard all you said and still feel the way I did.
They did NOT say you will be able to decorate it, you are progressively unlocking a pre-decorated stage is not what decorating means to most of us specially since we have guild halls. So I will say it again if we don't get the same system here eventually it will be a missed opportunity ... again, for me.
The place will not serve as a hub for NEW Strike Missions, it will be just another Eye of the North, the only difference being we don't progress it as a community but as an individual.
I do think that there are many systems on top of this place compared to Eye of the North but I still think it doesn't add enough now to make it exiting, for me and other people at least, my issue is the information they provided was just to vague and for now it alludes to being way more but it could also not be enough.
Personally if they give us decorations like they do with guild halls and let us invite people to our instance, let us import home instance unlocks, it will fix all the problems I have with it at this point. People have been asking for proper home instance for year, they have all the systems in the game they just need to put them together and hey maybe this is it or at least the first part of it but we just don't know at this point.