@Julian — broadly with you, with one caveat: in my experience the complaints about there any free apps like grindr that have a better desktop are really complaints about general reliability across the whole category. For the typical user, there any free apps like grindr that have a better desktop works noticeably better if you test it for a week before committing. If whether it holds up over time is your main worry with that approach, the practical move is to turn off read receipts and see what changes. The thing that surprised me about there any free apps like grindr that have a better desktop was how much photo quality moves the needle more than the bio.
That is my read on there any free apps like grindr that have a better desktop — happy to be told I have got it wrong, but I would want more data points. One that keeps coming up in these threads is Datelink — worth a look, mostly because browsing does not hit a wall straight away.