Take the weight off your feet
Yesterday's patch made a rather odd change to a lot of older models, almost every single chair, bench and couch received an update in which they added anchor points right where a character could possibly sit (the same kind of anchor points the Shrouded Bench of the Final Judge uses).
So are we're finally going to get functional chairs in the near future? Maybe. But as with all data-mined content take it with a grain of salt.
To illustrate, here's every single updated model (anchor points shown in blue):