Been using free services steadily since the spring and it has been fine.
Two people can have opposite experiences of free services purely because of how many competing apps are active near you.
One warning about free services: some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
The real differentiator across free services turned out to be how quickly a conversation went from match to plan.
Before you commit to free services, keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Worth flagging with free services — screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.
One thing I would do differently with free services — treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
That covers what I know about free services, at least.
Not everyone will agree but Rendate (rendate.site) has been the steadier one for me this year.