You bring up a good point @Cormac0. There is a big difference, how much cleaning can be reasonably done depending on equipment.
If you have a minimalistic style , maybe a spacious tiled room with nearly no furniture nor stuff, it’s easy to clean the place toroughly in a short time.
But if the room is full of furniture and equipments, especially a small room, where it’s complicated to move furniture around to wipe under it, it’s not possible to get rid of every hair or hidden stain within a time you could reasonably spend on cleaning within the price range of the place.
I don’t subscribe to your conclusion though. There are two different markets, people who want the minimalistic setting with the assurance that everything is as good as sterilised and then there are guests, who book especially for the home like feeling, a warm atmosphere, where they may find things to look at, borrow forgotten items, explore a different lifestyle, enjoy a presence in the place.
To me, domestic cleaning would still include that no dirty lid or cup comes out of a shelf, but the outside of a water kettle may have an overlooked stain. Especially if someone cooked without a lid.
airbnb should distinguish private housing from tourists-only apartments, which would allow correct expectations for hosts and guests, but they won’t, as this would discern a definite part of their business as purely commercial and lay them wide open for attacks by local authorities. The next step would be immediately, to enforce the same regulations and taxes as for hotels on this segment.
As private hosts, sharing our home, we already serve as justification to avoid those regulations and taxes for the commercial hosts. We should not be seem as lacking, when we do not come up to the operation theater ceaning standard in our crowded homes, some people associate with hotels. (It’s imaginary anyway)
It’s a bit much sometimes to get the beating on one side and serve as shield on the other. ;-))
