It might have been the point though. Those people were nobles who were used to their big castles in the countrysides where they were the center of attention.
And here they were forced into tiny studios, forced to relieve themselves in the bushes like animal, all because the king said so and you don't refuse the king.
Indeed. To start from the beginning, the whole idea behind building that monstrosity was to show the aristocracy who is the real boss. Louis XIV never said this, (the quote belongs to Paul I of Russia) but he could: "In my state the only important person is one to whom I'm talking and he keeps being important only as long as I keep talking to him." A noble could stay in his estate but his social position would dwindle, potentially, all the way to "aristocratic nobody": all things French nobility was interested in had been coming from the court. Versailles was a way to show the French aristocracy that time of Fronde is over and they are just glorified servants of the king who is completely free to do to them pretty much whatever he wants.
And it worked miracles: within a very short period of time French aristocracy completely lost its backbone. Take, for example, the person as highly places as the Great Mademoiselle (
Duchess of Montpensier), daughter of Gaston of Orleans. During the Fronde, she "captured" Orleans for her father from a royal garrisson and later ordered artillery of Bastille to fire on the royal troops, thus saving Prince Conde's posteriors. But when during the "Versailles era" she fall in love with Antonin Nompar de Caumont (better known as de Lauzun) their love letters were full of expressions of love ..... to the King (".... but first and foremost I'll love the King...." type of thing). Son of the Great Conde was routinely sleeping on a trunk outside the royal bedroom to be 1st on the morning royal dressing (and, sorry to tell, relieving himself) ceremony.
A long-term effect of the arrangement was multifaceted: it strengthened the royal power vs. nobility but it also turned nobility into a bunch of the useless parasites (few exceptions here and there) because connections at the court had been much more important than merits. By the time of the 7YW a well-connected officer could just leave an army if he felt himself unappreciated or offended and there would be no punishment.
The serie "Versailles" shows all these rituals as an exercise in humiliation and I think there's at least a kernel of truth to it. Versailles and its rituals were made to humiliate the nobility into submission and occupy them with petty power plays and keep them away from what actually mattered. No time to conspire about whether you should have more power when you need to compete to hold the King's night slippers
Well, there is a Russian expression "collective farm 'Red Cranberry'", which fits these series quite nicely but you are making the right conclusion about the true meaning of that charade.

BTW, the slippers aren't to bad comparing too a highly important duty of guarding the King's "night vase" (IIRC, there were 2 court officers assigned to this duty).