They had problems with lighting, sound, and air quality. They complained they didn't have enough intimacy, and they didn't have enough privacy. Of course privacy contradicts intimacy. Comfort, it seems, is shaped in subtler ways than we realize. Witold Rybczynski says that analyzing comfort is like trying to describe an onion by detailing each successive layer.
Comfort means more than removing pain or granting privacy.
It means creating well-being. And that has so many dimensions. Now I sit writing in the field where we all run our dogs. My back's against a tree. Dogs swirl about.