Hinge punishes free users

I’ve been using hinge for 3 days now. Ngl I think the app sucks. It’s expensive as fuck and they intentionally give you one rose just to pigeonhole you into buying 3. Hinge wants to sell you profile visibility for 20 an hour. Why am I swiping if you’re going to intentionally shadowban my profile? They tank your number of free likes especially after you wait all night to start liking again. You get significantly less likes than the day before.

I think they punishing free users for not paying to be seen by “ideal profiles or potential matches.” Ngl I’d actually buy a rose if I could just buy 1 not the obligatory 3. Obviously people are paying but is there any legitimate return on investment? I can’t legitimately justify the purchase to myself.

ETA: now where does it say in my post I want the service to be free? No where in here. Stop being dense. Reread the title before shilling for match.com 🙄