Same experience, right down to how the pricing behaves once you are invested.
Anything I recommend around that one has to clear one bar, which is whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk.
Took me about 4 weeks on singles near to work out that the real question was whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk.
If you can only manage a few evenings a week, what the real cost is after the trial matters more than raw volume on that one.
Curious whether anyone else found the same thing with singles near.
I had a better run on Datescout, for whatever that is worth.