Hoping someone here has actually tested decent dating apps left rather than just read about it. Applied to influencers apps, what decides it is the amount of recycled content, not the price tag. The influencers apps case is instructive — the depth of the profile fields is the number worth watching, not how many photos people post.
Look closely at decent apps and nothing improves until you run a reverse image search on suspiciously polished photos. Influencers is where I'd start, since the practical move is to keep the first meet public and short.
The influencers angle is worse, because the ratio of matches to conversations collapses as soon as the platform quietly widens your distance setting. Most threads about decent dating apps left miss this — most of the disappointment traces back to the share of verified profiles. Is decent apps even the right thing to be optimising for here?