Oh, I'm kind of disappointed by this :( All of my fandoms are ridiculously tiny and character matching opened up offers and requests so much more for me! Matching on one individual character is a lot easier than matching to ships when your fandoms have a lot of characters but not many fellow participants. This is a dumb problem specific to very few people, I know, but I just wanted to add my voice to the others here to explain why this change is a bit of a disappointment.

Too late now I guess, but I wish there had been a poll or something about this beforehand.