Still the same issue, I can hardly accept any open seeks around my own rating (even of untitled players). If I try and accept a seek of someone rated about 900, it's fine lol
'You are unable to challenge Titled and other protected players until you have played more games.'

Seems like they fixed this with the (unfortunate) removal of the 2D select-a-game interface (time/rating).

In order for it to dissapear I think you need to play 10 games in every variant, and on bullet blitz and rapid. It doesn't matter if you have played 10.000 blitz games, if you have never played ten KOth games you can't challenge premium members
Does that include bug house and variants like 4 player chess and atomic chess?
Yes, of course, thanks, but it's happened a lot lately.