When I logged on this morning I was greeted by a pop up box asking for my weight and occupation, with a disingenuous message saying how this was an enhancement designed to improve the user's experience. It also said you could hide your weight if you so choose.  When I went back to browsing, sure enough, the "body type" filter was gone!  No more ability to search for only slim, or average, athletic, etc according to one's preferences.  And my search results were now full of extremely overweight women I have zero interest in.  I wish everyone lots of luck, but come on, why force me to see profiles I don't want to see?  And even though the Body Type system was fraught with problems, it sure was better than nothing!  Perhaps eventually, the girls will be required to put their height and weight and we'll be able to filter for it.  For now, it's a mess.  Why does every single change they make on Seeking render the site less useful?  

I think it's great.  Often I search for 'curvy' but now those same girls are coming back as 170-180, which fits my hippo definition.   LOL.
I can normally filter out the large ones by looking at their arm size so it's not too much of an inconvenience for me.
Although I fully agree with you that weight should be a filter...so hoping they may add that feature in the future.

The ladies on reddit were not happy to see that height and weight were now required.

And that confirms my suspicion that they have always tried to hide their true body type!