@audrey.evans — broadly with you, with one caveat: actually use free adult chatroulette apps on their phone improved a little once I stopped treating it like a numbers game. If whether it holds up over time is your main worry with the free plan, the practical move is to never send money or a 'verification' fee on a hookup site. The part nobody mentions about actually use free adult chatroulette apps on their phone is general reliability; it shapes everything else. That flavour of site gets recommended constantly and I still think general reliability makes it a hard sell for the typical user.
Anyway — that is actually use free adult chatroulette apps on their phone from where I sit, but I am only one sample. Worth adding the Datewander free tier to the shortlist if local activity is your main worry.