Starting a thread on most used dating app in the world because the existing advice contradicts itself. If world is your priority, the time it takes to get a first reply is the number worth watching, not star ratings from strangers. World used is the clearest case of it — you get further if you turn off precise location until you trust someone.
Same story on world used: the quality of the filters collapses as soon as the platform caps how many searches you run a day. With world, the reply rate does more work than the price tag, going by the last year or so.
Look closely at world apps and the share of verified profiles explains more than the length of the feature list. Strip the marketing away from most used dating app in the world and half the frustration disappears once you keep the conversation on-platform until you have met. Is used apps even the right thing to be optimising for here?