Your original post actually reveals what the ACTUAL cause of the shidduch crisis is! – The Shadchanim!
Why is short boys the biggest obstacle to shidduchim?? And to suggest that there is no solution?!
And as it is, I hardly believe that you spoke to an actual 50 shadchanim (maybe it was more like 5?).
PS: a simple solution to the “short boys ‘problem'” is EDUCATION. Both boys and girls should learn to appreciate something deeper than cheap, shallow externalities.
It doesn’t mean EVERYONE should be OK with it, but that it should be the NUMBER ONE obstacle? If this is true then, as stated, the issue is wayy beyond the actual preference.