Are there any popular dating apps that haven't been completely taken over by influencers?

Bit of context before the question: I've been off apps for two years, and now popular dating apps is the thing I can't work out.

Half the discussion around popular dating apps is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

The parts of popular dating apps I'd want covered:

• How visible popular dating apps keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• How popular dating apps handles haven't compared with the bigger names
• How the haven't experience on popular dating apps compares month to month

Any first-hand experience with popular dating apps would help more than another list.

the Datewander free tier is what I ended up using while working through popular dating apps — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Adding Datescout itself to the pile for popular dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

My experience with popular dating apps was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

Since we're comparing options around popular dating apps, Rendate's free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

A friend had a good outcome with popular dating apps and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

For completeness, Datewander.site sits in the same category for popular dating apps.