Sadly, not for me or my friends. Match does not appear as an option in the settings. It just doesn't exist.
So my experience is this...
don't get freaked out by the lack of iTunes Match settings in Music settings. No, it is not there. You're not blind. The way it seemingly worked for me is that if I turn off iCloud Music Library, my Match library then shows up on my phone. If I turn on iCloud Music Library (initially), my Match library still showed up on my phone. Now if I add Music selections to my iCML, and turn off iCML, I will lose those songs, BUT STILL have my Match library. The last thing I tested was uploading/matching songs both with iCL turned on and turned off. In both cases, Match did the matching/uploading, and the songs were available in both cases. Similarly, a song I bought while iCML was turned on, was still available in My Music (not downloaded) when I turned off iCML.
So no, there isn't a setting for it anymore in Music (or anywhere.. I only found the option to turn off the subscription in my Apple account page). But on my phone at least... with iCL turned off, Match acts the same as it always did. The steps I performed in upgrading were:
update to 8.4 (Match has been on since day 1)
at running Music for the first time, turn on iCloud Music Library
everything from Match looked basically the same the first time my iCML finished loading
then (only because it released later) downloaded/installed iTunes 12.2
in iTunes turned on iCML which then just looked exactly like it did on my phone
edit - and just for the heck of it I just turned off iCML again just right now. With it off, My Music looks as expected.. All of my previous Match library, along with the few songs I've bought and/or uploaded in the last week. All of my Music added stuff was gone. I turned it back on (it said I had local content and asked if I wanted to Merge or Replace and I chose replace just because I just had it turned on) and my iCML looked exactly like it did before I turned it off.
The only difference for me personally, is like you said. I can't actually turn Match on or off anywhere. It's basically forced on at this point and how my phone would/does behave with iCML turned off.
One interesting thing.. so you basically get three benefits out of maintaining a Match subscription
1. DRM-free cloud backup
2. DRM-free downloads for Matched content to your phone or PC
3. When Matching your own content, with a Match subscription it will match it against iTMS, aka a larger selection. With only an Apple Music subscription it will match it only against Apple Music... uploading the song if it can't find it.
Basically Match is like a $2/month "premium" add-on to Apple Music.
UK too.
I've finally just abandoned uploading my own copy of 'The Moon & Antarctica' after trying dozens of edits to the meta-data, including naming it exactly the same as the file in the US store - literally nothing works. It *always* swaps the live version of '3rd Planet' with the studio one. You cannot prevent it.
Arghhhhhhhhhh!
Edit - actually, what it is doing is pulling the Live version of '3rd Planet' from the 'Baron Von Bullshit' album, which even runs a full minute longer, so the genius of Match ignores song run-times? I see no way of fixing that.
this will happen in some cases. I have a few explicit songs that will Match to clean, and there is nothing I can do to force it. In your case, my suggestion is to just completely bullshit the metadata... if you're fine with your actual copies being up there, just change them to like "My Personal Song A" through "My Personal Song Z" or whatever. It should then upload no problem. After it's uploaded then go back to the songs and edit the metadata back to be correct.
many will insist that Google Music is better for just flat out uploading. In my case though, I probably received ~1000-3000 upgrades to 256Kbps thanks to Match. IMHO worth the hassle of fixing the stupid Match problems (which are in fact stupid)
