@MasonQ — this matches what I saw. Mega dating app rewards patience more than strategy, but I'm only one sample, and beyond that you are optimising rounding errors. Where I landed on mega dating app: frustrating, provided you fill the profile out properly first.
Started digging into mega dating app and immediately hit the same wall everyone describes with whether it holds up over time. Actually the complaints about mega dating app are really complaints about whether it holds up over time across the whole category. Mega dating app gets recommended constantly and I still think general reliability makes it a hard sell for the bulk of users. The part nobody mentions about mega dating app is day-to-day usability; it shapes everything else.
Posting this mostly so the next person searching mega dating app finds something useful. I have been running Datebound (free to browse) alongside the mainstream apps and the reply rate held up better than I expected.