Building on what Aaron said, the honest tradeoff with eastern european is the setup against convenience.
If the money side of it isn't sorted, eastern european will not go anywhere.
In practice, eastern european lives or dies on what comes of it. Whether it's worth paying for matters more for eastern european than any feature list. You cannot really talk about eastern european without talking about the paywall question.
What decided it for me with eastern european was how it handles day to day. Take that as one data point on how to find eastern european dating sites free to join, not gospel.
Worth knowing what else exists around eastern european, without me vouching for any of it:
- flurrydate.online
- datewander.site
- datingfly.online
Worth a look if eastern european is what you are weighing up.