To any FC leaders who were previously on the fence about small houses, I highly recommend taking another look at the smalls and checking out the new basements.
In my opinion, small houses are now perfectly sized for small FCs. The staircase to the basement is in a new hallway off to the side of the main floor, so it doesn't take away floor space. Also, the basement is larger than the top floor. It really adds that nice, bigger room that small houses were missing before, plus having two floors is just really nice.
My FC bit the bullet and got a small, simply because we realized we'd never reasonably afford a medium, and now we're all very glad we did.
Props to SE for adding in the basements!