First of all, hey! New York Post, please look up the definition of "commiserate" because I'm pretty sure the new FBI Director actually said "commensurate," which is the word that makes sense in that context.
OTOH, anyone with a heart can commiserate with those who have to work in or even drive past that edifice of architectural overreach that is the J. Edgar Hoover Building. It was the most expensive government office building ever built in DC - yes, even more costly than the Pentagon - when it was completed in the 1970s - but it's already completely shot, dysfunctional, and not by any stretch physically secure.
It has only one thing going for it, and that is location. It's next to the beautiful Art Deco Justice Department building, which is exactly where a BUREAU of the Justice Department should be if it is to be fully functional. And location is the overwhelmingly important factor in any real estate deal.
For the FBI is, literally, the Bureau of Investigation of the Justice Department, one of a number of bureaus that report to the Attorney General, and not / not a separate government agency no matter how much it pretends to be the later.
Something else the FBI is not is a national police force. The federal government has very little to do with policing violent crime or indeed most other types of crime. Those remain a local and state responsibility. When Kash Patel says he plans to spread most of the FBI staff out around the country to fight crime, he is walking down the empire-building path of J. Edgar Hoover, which ought to be alarming in this MAGA administration.
I would have expected The Trumpening to put the FBI back into its administrative box in DOJ, not to achieve Hoover's old gangbusters dream. (By the way, has it ever occurred to you that there is nothing more absurd than an accountant with an assault weapon? It does to me whenever I see FBI agents in Studly Wear and Theatrics - SWaT - costume.)
There is one clear and rational path forward if the Administration and Congress are finally serious about replacing the Hoover Building, and that is to demolish the building and replace it with a smaller one on the same site. That would require no new site selection and purchase, would preserve some vital infrastructure that's on the current site, and would make modern facility security requirements achievable.
The only downsides are the need to move FBI offices into swing space for a few years, and that the avoidance of an enormous 3+ billion dollar new construction project elsewhere would make some greedy Virginia and Maryland politicians cry.
Actually, that last one is a plus, not a negative. And so is the first one if the swing space were to be obtained in the former Trump Hotel directly across the street from Hoover's HQ. That hotel is still a GSA property, so far as I know, and it held FBI overflow offices before the Hoover Building was constructed. The FBI would be returning to its roots there.