I understand the correlation you're making but HKG housing issues are a bit beyond a simply discussion of JS booking status.

If my JS flight to MEM diverts and I miss my trip, what difference is my travel status going to make to the company? Regardless of whether I checked staging or business when I booked it, I'm still going to miss the trip. So, whatever DO happens to be on duty that night gets to "discipline" me based on a technicality? To what end? I'm already out the trip pay - I really don't care what letter ends up in my secret flight ops file.