They aren't used at all anywhere for the most part because it takes up to 20 years.

When morons say it half of them mean needing to evict someone who sets up shop illegally without a lease and half of them mean needing to go to court instead of being free to put tenants shit on the street for non-payment.

Squatters rights also called Aversive possession have to do with neither.

Squatters of the kind almost anyone encounters in real life don't have squatters rights at most they have the leverage provided by cops being unwilling to handle the situation. If you break into a property you don't live in you can absolutely simply be arrested. In fact WA codified in law that if you aren't a tenant and haven't been recently you can be removed on the owners say so without a formal eviction.

Tenants who don't pay still aren't squatters and their right to a formal eviction is a tenant's right.

I wish to God squatters would quietly drill out the locks on an old abandoned property, occupy it and slowly fix it up and just go over to whatever agency 5 years later with the documentation to show it and say "by right of labor and occupancy this house is mine."

I just doesn't seem to be how it works in places with tolerant squatting laws. The way it seems to go is some enterprising criminals will run off some fake leases, gain entry to a home that's only temporarily unoccupied, and then when the owners come back they ask them for money to leave. And then the owners give them money, and the squatters either leave or they don't.