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Perhaps there is a reason these people are single.
In another thread somewhere, someone pointed out that over time dating apps tend to fill up with ... let's say people who perform poorly on dating. People who are good at conversing and picking good photos (which is distinct from being physically attractive) will enter the system, and then leave pretty quickly. People who are shit at talking, have poor photos, and date badly, will stay longer.
That may be true, but the platform also has an incentive to only give you bad matches. If you match with someone you are actually a good match for, you will probably leave the platform and therefore stop paying them money.
This is also true. I think the app owners want you to get a steady trickle of so-so but imperfect matches. If you get nothing, you'll leave. But if you keep almost getting it, you'll come back. And maybe pay for that "premium" service. It's a trash business model.
Match-makers where you pay once has a better incentive, since the longer you're in the system the more labor they have to do, but those tend to be expensive.
OKCupid had a blog post about why you should never pay for dating services, but after they got bought by Match Group that vanished.