My experience with best legit dating sites was mixed enough that I want to be specific rather than general.
Anything I recommend around the site has to clear one bar, which is whether the recommendations improve with use.
Reply rate on the site roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though whether you can hold a conversation without paying never budged.
If you care about how discreet the notifications are, that alone should decide whether it's worth it.
Before committing time to it, work out how thin the pool gets outside big cities.
Anyone tried best legit dating sites on a smaller platform and got a different result?