OMG, why don't some of you put the make-up set away, please!
"Arbeit macht frei" and "Concentration Camp" are widely used metaphors to get satyrical or cynical messages over. Maybe not in the "Hello" magazine but certainly on forums and blunt discussions. No need to dress-up in that hypocritical political correctness skirt here anyway!
As to the actual thread:
Ask yourself: What is your limit on accommodation? What downgrade or uprooting would you accept? How much longer than the well established school run is bearable for your wife? How far from a power line, or from horseflies for that matter, would you bear before starting to complain?
Just consider that about five years back a skipper could take the allowance and rent or buy a 3-bedroom villa cost neutral. Today this is not even doable for a decent 2-bedroom apartment! That limits and in most cases inhibits the choice of where to live today. Meaning that you are at the mercy of the company. Choice is a very much cherished QOL at least for many of us.
Again: Where is your limit of downgrading? There certainly is one even for you and reaching it you would bitch and moan just as we are now.
Maybe this happens on a somewhat high level, depending on your expected QOL, but it is not up to you to criticise other's levels without deeper knowledge of the circumstances.
A downgrading is a downgrading and no one likes that if the profits of the other side go up!