Is my architect being a little 'poncetastic' for my house?

[TotalConfucius]

After an initial 'meeting of the minds' he seems have become fixated on every bedroom having an ensuite. So this wee chalet bungalow with its 25 x 12m footprint would end up with 4 bathrooms and 5 toilets. He says this is how people live these days. Is it really?
One of the downstairs bedrooms already has an ensuite.
The other is adjacent to a bathroom which is also the guest toilet/hand wash.
Upstairs my vision was two good sized bedrooms, one excellent bathroom, and a large walk in closet/storage room (storage space at a premium in a chalet bungalow). So my plan is 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (all with showers and retaining a bath also upstairs) and 3 toilets. That seems acceptable to me. I am not looking for cutting edge design - more solid, practical, family-friendly living in a rural area, including dogs and various animals and lots of mud.
4 of us live here, that's likely to decrease to 3 over the next 5 years, we don't have many house guests but would still have guest room, and we intend to stay here very long term.
Despite my telling him we don't want two ensuites upstairs and a guest toilet squished under the stairs (losing even more storage space) he says plans will include these. Should I cite creative differences and look for someone else, or just send the plans back with amendments in red?
Up to now our house renovations have been more 'gimme that sledgehammer, I think this'll look ok' - we've never used an architect.

We very nearly bought a new build from a small developer - it was a town house over 4 storeys. It had a cloakroom in the basement, an ensuite shower room to the 2nd bedroom on the ground floor, a family bathroom on the 1st floor and an ensuite to the master bedroom on the 1st floor. That's 4 toilets. For 2 people. We eventually persuaded them that the ensuite to the 2nd bedroom should be changed to be a small cloakroom as we wanted to change the 2nd bedroom into a study. But honestly - how long do you want to spend in these places anyway?

We ended up pulling out of the new build and are now in an Edwardian terrace with one bathroom and we have just squeezed in a tiny cloakroom under the stairs when having a new kitchen extension done as that seemed sensible.

Ditch the architect because he's clearly got his own agenda and has forgotten that YOU are HIS client and are paying his fees.

We have a house well endowed with bathrooms and ensuites no one uses their own. My sons use our ensuite, DH uses the main bathroom and I always use the guest ensuite. Yes, the constant cleaning is tiresome.

I viewed a modest terraced house that had been completely over-developed. They had managed to squeeze in four en-suites. When I say squeezed, I mean they had taken four modest bedrooms and carved a bathroom out of each. They had put in those small 'doubles' to create an illusion that these were in fact double bedrooms, but there was no room left for a wardrobe or drawers or even side tables - you would have ended up keeping your clothes in the bath. What family needs a bathroom each more than they need storage?

MYTHS
It is your house, and the Building Regulations only require one toilet & wash hand basin & H&C water (somewhere), and a bathroom with a bath & H&C water. So talk to the local Council Building Control office.

Residents and Guests must be able to use a flush toilet without having to go through a bedroom. So Shower Rooms and/or En-suite facilities are optional.

At least one flush toilet must be gravity drained (i.e. will still work in the dark when there is no power).

Use of stored rainwater (and/or re-cycled bath water, etc.) to flush the toilet(s) is optional.

The installation and use of Composting Toilets is optional (and can not be the only toilet!).

John Bone, C.Build.E MCABE, BSc Hons.
Building Regulation Surveyor (since 1974)

Whatsgoingon that's the funniest anti ensuite rant i have read I can't bear the thought of someone crapping in my bedroom but adding the hopeful face