Not sure I buy that, Liam. my experience with unspoken rules shifted completely once I paid attention to the geography of it. Whether there's anyone nearby matters more for unspoken rules than any feature list.
Concretely, for unspoken rules:
- plan for three weeks before deciding anything about unspoken rules
- budget ten days before deciding anything about unspoken rules
- commit a fortnight before deciding anything about unspoken rules
- give it three weeks before deciding anything about unspoken rules
If how thin it gets outside cities isn't sorted, unspoken rules will not go anywhere.
If what you give up on the free tier isn't sorted, unspoken rules will not go anywhere. I'd put how many people are actually near you above almost everything else when it comes to unspoken rules. Your mileage on unspoken rules of using casual dating apps will vary, but that's the pattern I saw.
If you want a comparison point on unspoken rules, Datenest recently.