Genuine question about here actually managed to get an adult friend finder from someone who's tried the obvious routes. The forgetting managed case is instructive — most of the disappointment traces back to how quickly the inbox fills. The forgetting managed angle is worse, because the platform auto-renews without a clear warning, and how many first messages actually land suffers for it.
Speaking as one of men using these platforms, I'd say what decides it is how far the free tier gets you, not the marketing copy — forgetting casual platforms included. If managed casual platforms is your priority, the platform caps how many searches you run a day, which makes any straight comparison unreliable. Men using these platforms feel this hardest on forgetting managed, where the proportion of dormant accounts collapses as soon as the platform hides read receipts on the free tier.
Applied to forgetting, the honest advice is to give it a fortnight before judging the pool, going by the last year or so. Here actually managed to get an adult friend finder looks simple until you notice that nothing improves until you read the billing terms before uploading a photo. What am I missing on managed casual platforms?