Broadly agree, though I would weight whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk higher.
After a few weeks on the chat the only question left was how thin the pool gets outside big cities.
I tested it across two cities and the difference came down to how much of the base is genuinely looking.
If you're only browsing, the platform is fine. The moment whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk matters, it changes.
Most comparisons of the chat skip whether the ratio is workable in your area, which is the part that matters.
Once I fixed my filters, whether messaging costs anything once you start stopped being the bottleneck on the app.
The gap between good and bad platforms here is how the chat behaves on a weak connection.
Anyone tried sexting sites on a smaller platform and got a different result?