Wow. I mean, just wow. For me, these questions mattered more than the profile pic. It let me know what the purpose of the guest's trip was; did they read and agree to my house rules, etc. So that's gone now as well, and we weren't even notified?
Airbnb, there are more humane ways to treat your traditional / home-sharing hosts (aka 'community members'). If you are intent on arranging for our collective demise (and really, based on everything that's happened this past year, it appears that you are), then let us all pass out of your machine-like, corporate hands with dignity, versus allowing us to suffer a withering, prolonged death...