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Plants + dirt + water = significant additional weight to consider when designing a building for the people and their furniture..
Buildings today are already being designed with only the bare essentials in mind, they aren't even built with safety in mind only cost effectiveness (see Grenfell and million other buildings like it that should be condemned).
I never said it can't be done, but the person I replied to asked what the downside is, and from a developers' point of view, that will be it.