Receiving gen was always an option with character matching, though. If you requested a character, you were also signing up to receive gen about them, whether or not you had ship ODs. So I think it's hard to tell whether people received gen this year because of ship matching or simply because they matched with someone who wanted to write gen, which could happen in previous years as well.
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Date: 2021-11-11 10:32 am (UTC)/requested characters, received ships I mentioned in my ODs