Surely someone else has noticed this and not been happy with the change...

This is part of Provisioning 2.0. In an effort to make the game more immersive all visual cues for when food is active will be removed. Instead the controller will vibrate at fixed intervals before the current food exprires increasing in magnitude the closer it gets to expiring. As the food's duration begins to end a grumbling noise will be heard to mimic the fact that your character is now hungry. [/sarcasm]

Yeah, I don't want a floating health bar above my characcter's head, I want to always see the stat bars so I know when my food is active. What's sad is that even 30 years ago, Gauntlet told you when your character needed food.

We don't see (de)buffs, heal or dmg numbers, now we can't even see our health/stam/magica bar on console... since the last patch I also have the feeling that out of the sudden my health drops from 100% to 0% in some fight situations (lag, display bug, who knows...). I really like this kind of immersion