@Tyler_635 — this matches what I saw. Ran there an objective list of dating apps ranked by success rate alongside the household-name apps for over a couple of months — same effort on both, meaningfully different outcome. Three weeks into the platform itself the pattern was clear: the app is only as good as the local user pool, but that is one person's read.
On there an objective list of dating apps ranked by success rate — more often than not the answer depends more on how it performs in practice than on the app itself. The thing that surprised me about there an objective list of dating apps ranked by success rate was how much the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week. Comparing the product itself against the major apps, the gap is smaller than the marketing suggests.
Ending on the useful bit: for most of us, check activity at different hours.