Never used apps, and just like social media, now you can see some kind of push back about how effective it is, and other inherent flaws. Reading a book called Outrage Machine about social media,
but parts would apply to dating apps, meaning that the intentionality of apps wasn't to cause chaos and overwhelm people, encourage ghosting, encourage treating people disposable, decision fatigue, on and on, but when these ideas are introduced to society there's a lag time between even identifying all those flaws, much less addressing them, but by then, it's kind of tied to the app/ideas bottom line, this is where people are relazing the flaws of APP based dating and you see delete the app and all that.
anyway, suffice to say, meeting people in person, to me, is so much more enjoyable and rewarding. It's like walking outside and using all your senses vs looking at pics of a walk outside on your phone. It's easy for me, even with near no effort, but I can only imagine how hard it is for some people.