I really don’t know what you have against smaller houses. You bash them at every opportunity.
I understand it like this:
He has nothing against small houses – rather against planning a house (here quite modest in size) with features that are usually “expected” in larger houses, meaning because the investment is more worthwhile per area. A lot of technology also means a large roof area and a big freezer room. That conflicts a bit. As I have already noted, it seems as if half the house is either equipped with placeholder rooms or with auxiliary rooms.
Moreover, the energy savings, if one approaches it sensibly and ecologically, should also be usable by more people.
If you take it precisely, you choose a storage system designed for so many people. Then a heating system that fits the household and the daily routine. (Let’s leave infrared heating out of this translation, since is speaking more generally)
So another, simpler example: there is no point in a single person installing a family bathtub in their bathroom. Even if they like to take baths and occasionally a second person bathes with them, one should plan for up to 2 people, not a corner tub for 4, where then a shower fixture is added in case someday 3 people..., etc.
And then there is the question of needs: why plan this and that as if configuring a new car, where certain financial aspects don’t matter, such as sports equipment, ashtray, etc... but it’s doubtful whether a Dacia needs a Porsche engine.
Certainly you can do it, but somehow it’s quite pointless. Just for the sake of wanting to have it?!