I finally threw in the towel and switched back to hotels after our previous stay in Toronto that was a nightmare, which included:
* Claimed we had the whole house but actually there was a family living in the basement and the laundry room was shared
* Host had crudely typed out instructions and labels over everything in the place
* House rules were extremely strict and required us to clear snow
* Had a 10pm curfew (which we broke because we got in late exhausted)
* Place wasn't terribly clean despite a listing with a $250 cleaning fee
* Absolutely the worst bed I've ever slept in
* Check-out instructions included a list of chores that went above and beyond the usual asks (eg: throwing out trash)
It wasn't always like this, but I feel like the quality of hosts has gone way down. I'm guessing most of the good hosts moved on during the COVID years.