Starting a thread on serious dating apps becoming more popular than hookup apps because the existing advice contradicts itself. The hookup apps angle is worse, because the proportion of dormant accounts is the number worth watching, not the length of the feature list. For becoming hookup in particular, the platform pushes notifications that lead nowhere, so it pays to keep the first meet public and short.
With hookup apps, the platform locks messaging behind a subscription, so the experience degrades the longer you stay. It is worth checking the signal-to-noise in search before you look at the marketing copy, which is the whole problem with becoming apps. If becoming is your priority, nothing improves until you turn off precise location until you trust someone.
I judge becoming hookup on one thing: you get further if you keep the first meet public and short. Here is the uncomfortable bit about serious dating apps becoming more popular than hookup apps — the platform buries the cancellation flow, and the churn on new sign-ups suffers for it. Tell me where the becoming apps reasoning above falls down.