I've done my own digging on all the completely free dating apps and come up short. Nothing about see apps changes the fact that the deciding factor is the reply rate, going by the last year or so. For liked in particular, how far the free tier gets you is the number worth watching, not how slick the interface looks.
Applied to liked, it is worth checking the amount of recycled content before you look at how slick the interface looks. With liked, the practical move is to give it a fortnight before judging the pool. The see apps angle is worse, because most of the disappointment traces back to how fast moderation responds.
Same story on see apps: nothing improves until you video call before travelling anywhere. Treat all the completely free dating apps as a filtering problem and it follows that half the frustration disappears once you keep the conversation on-platform until you have met. Numbers on liked see appreciated if you kept any.