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Oliver Schick
As a matter of law, I'm afraid that's all complete cobblers, not least because there is no legal distinction between renting and a lease. They're the same thing. There are short term leases, where there's no premium but a rack rent, and there are long term leases where the lease is granted for a premium and a ground rent is charged. However, they're both leases, they're both tenancies, and the lessee/tenant in both cases is renting the property.
The terms of short term leases and long term leases are often very different. But they're fundamentally the same thing, although admittedly if you have a long lease of more than 21 years you have rights of enfranchisement you wouldn't have with a shorter term lease.
The proposition that 'Rental = no property rights' is simply wrong. If you rent property, you have the right to occupy it in the same way and to the same extent and with the same proprietary rights and interests as someone with a 999 year long lease.
Still not seeing why leasehold systems are, as a matter of principle, 'rotten'. What are you proposing as a (realistic) alternative to leasehold ownership?