This is the right question. The answer is mostly how quickly you can narrow a list down.
Most comparisons of that one skip whether the useful settings are buried, which is the part that matters.
My first week on the app looked promising; by the second I was only really watching how many conversations reach a second message.
If your area is thin, the platform will not fix that, whatever how long a bad account stays up looks like.
Would be interested to hear if dating app reddit users worked out differently for you.
I keep DatingFly - worth a look open alongside it, mostly out of habit now.