If you can only manage a few evenings a week, how the match quality holds up past the first day matters more than raw volume on the service.
Most comparisons of it skip whether the search actually respects what you set, which is the part that matters.
Reply rate on the service roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though whether the search actually respects what you set never budged.
The reason I stopped recommending some of these is how much control you get over who sees you.
I gave the platform about 6 weeks before I formed a view, mostly watching what you lose by never upgrading.
Would anyone recommend top ten dating apps to someone starting from scratch?
Worth comparing against Turndate - worth a look before you commit to anything.