Why do the Vuduri have apartments?

Now I'm on a roll, asking serious questions about the construction of Rome's Revolution. So here's another one: why did the Vuduri bother building apartments on Skyler Base at all?

We know that they need to sleep, although in the original, long-form version of Rome's Revolution, they didn't actually sleep. (See Rome was too weird) So, ok, give them a bed or cot or something. It doesn't have to be a dormatory. They could have a room with a bed and a door. But why did they need a workstation? A sitting area? Private bathrooms?

The workstations I can let slide because all the Vuduri is work, eat and sleep and it wouldn't be practical for them all to cram into the stellar observatory. Despite that fact that they had their bloco and stilo, there were times when a full blown computer and monitor were required.

I also already discussed why Rome had two chairs in her apartment so we can let that one slide as well.

Private bathrooms? Probably not necessary. Just convenient.

The only thing I can't explain is the sofa. I had to keep it in there from the original VIRUS 5 written in 1973 because that was supposed to be the first time Rei met Rome. But in the modern version, I moved their meeting up to the first chapter.

So was keeping the sofa just nostalgic? No. The answer is very simple. You, the reader, have to be able to relate to the people of the future to some degree in order to measure whether they are better or worse than us or both. And an apartment that had just a bed and a bathroom seemed kind of dopey to me so I went with something we can all relate to.

In other words, dramatic license strikes again!