I have used services like this on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.
Worth doing early on services like this: finish the profile completely before you browse anything.
What I wish someone had told me about services like this: turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.
Everything about services like this hinged on whether profiles felt written by real people in the end.
If you're starting with services like this, finish the profile completely before you browse anything.
What mattered most with services like this in the end was whether the match volume held up past the first week.
The thing that kept me on services like this was how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.
Others here will know more about top dating sites ranked by user reviews than I do.
The one that finally worked for me was rendate.site, after about a month of trying others.